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Carolina The SCHOOL of INFORMATION and LIBRARY SCIENCE • The UNIVERSITY of NORTH CAROLINA at CHAPEL HILL @
Summer 2006 http://sils.unc.edu Number 68
Inside this Issue
Dean’s Message........................................ 2
Faculty and Staff News.........................10
Student News...........................................18
Alumni News............................................19
Dean Griffiths named to
National Science Board
SCHOOL OF INFORMATION
AND LIBRARY SCIENCE
Internationally
acclaimed policy expert,
researcher and university
administrator, Dr. José-Ma-rie
Griffiths, was nomi-nated
by President George
W. Bush and confirmed by
the United States Senate to
serve on the U.S. National
Science Board.
Griffiths is the dean of the School of Information and
Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill and founding chair of The Knowledge TrustSM, which
is concerned with the role and preparation of 21st-century
knowledge professionals.
Griffiths has held two previous presidential appoint-ments,
one to the President’s Information Technology Advi-sory
Committee from 2003 to 2005, and the other to the U.S.
National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
from 1996 to 2002. Griffiths also has served on blue-ribbon
panels and committees for agencies including the National
Academy of Sciences, NASA, Department of Energy, U.S.
Geological Survey and the U.S. Navy.
“José-Marie Griffiths has impressive credentials in sci-ence
and technology and a broad range of experiences,” said
Chancellor James Moeser. “She is a perfect candidate for this
prestigious national appointment, and we are proud that her
significant talents have been recognized.”
The 24 member board advises the President and Con-gress
on issues of national science and engineering policy,
and is the governing board of the National Science Founda-tion
(NSF). The term of membership to the National Science
Board is six years.
The National Science Board was established by Congress
in 1950 as an independent policy making body. It was
created “to promote the progress of science; to advance the
national health, prosperity and welfare; to secure the national
defense.” The Board oversees the policies of the NSF, an
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Photo by Tom Lippert Photography
SILS ranked number one by
U.S. News and World Report
The School of Information and Library Science (SILS) has once again
been ranked number one by U.S. News and World Report in the
magazine’s 2007 edition of “America’s Best Graduate Schools.” Page 3
Join us for a grand celebration!
The School of Information and Library Science will launch its 75th anniversary on Monday,
September 18, 2006 with the theme, “Illuminating the Past, Imagining the Future!” as the
school celebrates its many accomplishments and looks toward new and exciting opportuni-ties.
The launch will take place from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in Memorial Hall on the campus of the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A reception will follow.
You won’t want to miss the launch ceremony which will feature special guests:
• Deanna Marcum, associate librarian for Library Services, Library of Congress
• Michael Ruettgers, senior advisor and retired chair, EMC2
• Robert Martin (Ph.D. ’88), professor, Texas Women’s University School of Library and
Information Science
The event will also include words from university and state officials, a short video on the
history of the school and musical entertainment.
To reserve your place at Memorial Hall on September 18th, call us at 919-962-8366 or
send an e-mail note to: 75th@ils.unc.edu
On Thursday, September 21, SILS students have planned a series of events including
poster sessions, panel discussions, a demographic overview and a social activity that promises
a good time for all! In addition, the SILS Alumni Association will host its annual new student
reception in the lobby of the Louis Round Wilson Library.
The Adventures in Ideas Symposium, co-sponsored with the Program in Humanities and
Human Values, will feature “Censorship, Privacy, National Security & Other Dilemmas of the
Information Age,” on Friday afternoon at 4:30 p.m. and Saturday morning, September 22-23.
Topics of the symposium include: “The Spider’s Web of Privacy and Censorship: The Poison
Powers of the Information Age;” “National Security, Secrecy and the Law;” “Rhetoric and the
Law: How the Law Reduces Ideas to Writing;” “Is Creativity in Jeopardy? The Information Age,
Medicine and Music;” and “Dilemmas of the Information Age.” For more information, or to
register to attend the symposium, visit the Web site:
http://www.unc.edu/depts/human/level_3/2006_fall/Censorship.htm
(Please note that first time attendees to the Adventures in Ideas Symposium may attend at 50
percent off the normal cost.)
The anniversary committee is planning a number of activities and events that will take
place throughout the anniversary year. Be sure to visit the SILS anniversary Web site often for
new details on speakers and events at:
http://sils.unc.edu/75thAnniversary
Make sure you’re part of this once in a lifetime celebration! We hope to see you soon! q
Illuminating the Past, Imagining the Future!
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Information and Library Science for
the school’s alumni and friends.
We welcome your submissions of news
in addition to your comments about this
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Please send submissions to:
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100 Manning Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360
or contact:
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Learn more about opportunities for
giving to the School of Informa-tion
and Library Science or about
connecting with the SILS Alumni
Association by contacting:
SHAWN JACKSON
Development Director
shawn_jackson@unc.edu
919/962-8365
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is
committed to the principles of equal opportunity
with regard to its students and its employees.
WANDA MONROE
Editor
Director of Communications
KELLY MURPHY
Design Editor
Communications Assistant
Dean’s Message
Sincerely,
José-Marie Griffiths
Professor and Dean
Dear Friends and Colleagues:
As you can see from our lead article, we are planning for a great 75th an-niversary
celebration launch on September 18! We’re delighted and honored to
have Deanna Marcum, Michael Ruettgers and Bob Martin present at our event
and we know you will be too. The celebration will focus on rededication,
redefinition and commitment. Rededication to the high ethical and
professional standards that have made the school and those entrusted to its care,
among the best in the nation; redefinition of our ongoing mission to educate
and train the “next” generation of knowledge professionals, and, indeed, an
ongoing redefinition of our profession itself; and commitment to the highest
standards of stewardship of what we believe is now, perhaps for the first time
in history, a globally accessible Knowledge Trust, comprising the totality of
mankind’s recorded knowledge … a trust never more accessible, never more
at risk, and never more in need of conscientious, professional and dedicated
stewardship.
During our celebration of 75 years of providing a quality education to so
many, the School of Information and Library Science has much to celebrate.
• In a very timely manner, we’ve once again been ranked number one
by US News and World Report
• The School continues to educate the brightest and best
• Our excellent faculty are leaders in their fields as both great
educators and researchers
• SILS alumni continue to make a significant impact on the
professions of library and information science
The celebration launches a series of activities that will highlight the School
throughout the year. We plan to close the celebration with a finale next fall, truly
celebrating for a full-year. We hope you will join us for as many events and activ-ities
as you can, and participate by sharing your fond memories of SILS on our
memory blog on the 75th Anniversary Web site at: sils.unc.edu/75thAnniversary
On a more somber note, we were shocked and saddened to learn of the
passing of one of our strongest innovators and advocates of information and
library science, Dr. Fred Kilgour. Our thoughts are with his family and those
closest to him. We plan to hold a tribute in his honor this coming spring during
the OCLC/Frederick G. Kilgour Lecture in Information and Library Science. We
hope you will be able to join us then for an informational session, and a final
honor to a truly great man.
We have a busy year planned that is sure to offer engaging lectures, sym-posia
and educational experiences for all. Please plan to join us in celebration
of our 75th anniversary as we hold fast to the original goal of our founder, Dr.
Louis Round Wilson, to send out educated professionals “to tap the vast reservoir
of human knowledge.”
U.S. News and World Report ranks SILS #1
School News
The School of Information and Library Science (SILS) has been
ranked number one by U.S. News and World Report in the magazine’s
2007 edition of “America’s Best Graduate Schools.” The School tied for
first with University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign among programs
with accredited master’s degrees.
“We are delighted to once again receive a number one ranking in
U.S. News and World Report,” said Dr. José-Marie Griffiths, dean of
SILS. “The ranking is an acknowledgment of our efforts to provide one
of the best graduate programs in the nation, and we aim to maintain
the highest standards of excellence as we prepare our students for their
careers.”
In addition to ranking number one overall, SILS also placed in six
of seven specialty areas of the magazine’s top ten list, including:
• 2nd - Health Librarianship
• 4th - Digital Librarianship
• 5th - Law Librarianship
• 7th - Archives and Preservation
• 7th - Information Systems
• 8th - Services for Children and Youth
The rankings for the 50 accredited information and library
science schools are based on a survey of deans, program directors and
senior faculty of the schools. According to information released by
U.S. News and World Report, those responding to the surveys rated
programs on their academic quality using a scale of one to five with
five outstanding. SILS received a 4.5 overall ranking for its accredited
master’s programs.
Prior to the current results, the magazine’s most recent ranking
for schools with master’s programs in information and library science
was conducted in 1999. SILS also placed first in that ranking tying
with University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign. q
Library legend — Dr. Frederick G. Kilgour, dies at 92
The library and information
science world was saddened July
31, 2006 when librarian, inven-tor,
researcher and educator, Dr.
Frederick G. Kilgour, passed away
from a cerebral hemorrhage at the
age of 92 in Chapel Hill, NC.
Dr. Kilgour revolutionized
the way libraries network and store
information with his invention of
of 500 and revenues of $27 million. The number of libraries OCLC served
grew from the original 54 Ohio academic libraries to 2,300 libraries in all
50 states. The number of records in WorldCat grew from the ground up to
five million. Today, there are more than 55,000 libraries and institutions
in 110 countries using Dr. Kilgour’s creation.
“Fred had a rare combination of extraordinary vision and ingenu-ity
to design and develop solutions to critical problems in improving
access to information,” said Dr. José-Marie Griffiths, dean of the School
of Information and Library Science. “His contributions to the field were
numerous and far-reaching, and those of us at SILS were honored to have
Fred join us in his later years as a distinguished research professor. The
information and library science field has lost one of its tallest giants.”
SILS wasn’t Dr. Kilgour’s first experience with academe. He had
previously worked as a librarian and library director at Harvard and Yale
universities for more than a quarter of a century. He was a distinguished
research professor at SILS from 1990 to 2004 when he retired.
During World War II, he was a U.S. Navy intelligence officer in the
Office of Strategic Services, where he developed a system for obtaining
publications from enemy and enemy-occupied areas, and for which he
received the Legion of Merit.
Dr. Kilgour is survived by his wife, Eleanor Margaret Kilgour, and
daughters: Marta Kilgour, Vajra Alison Kilgour and Meredith Kilgour
Perdiew. He leaves two grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
There will be no funeral service; however, several memorial services
are being planned. SILS will host a special tribute to honor Dr. Kilgour in
conjunction with the OCLC/Frederick G. Kilgour Lecture in Information
and Library Science in early 2007. Details will be shared as they become
available.
the WorldCat database in 1971. It is one of the most consulted databases
in higher education and is used daily by millions of students, teachers,
scholars and researchers worldwide. By creating WorldCat, he solved a
problem that threatened to stifle scholarship, research and intellectual
productivity – the rising costs of cataloging the ever-expanding body
of information. He developed the concept of online shared catalog-ing,
which made it unnecessary for more than one library to originally
catalog an item. It reduces costs and improves the availability of library
resources. Today, Web search engines use WorldCat to lead researchers to
pertinent information in libraries around the world.
In 1967, Kilgour founded the Ohio College Library Center, later
renamed OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., a non-profit
organization that works to foster access to information and reduce library
costs. He served as OCLC’s first president and oversaw the organization’s
growth from a regional computer system to an international network.
Dr. Kilgour led OCLC from 1967 to 1980, presiding over its spectacu-lar
growth from an intrastate network to a national network. During his
tenure, OCLC grew from a staff of two and revenues of $67,000, to a staff
At the crossroads: International academy adopts
resolutions on ethics and openness
International leaders met at the crossroads
of culture and tradition in Granada, Spain, on
April 27 and 28 to discuss the future of library
and information science
education, which are facing
a crossroads of their own.
Adopting Thomas
Jefferson’s pledge of “Eternal
hostility against every form
of tyranny over the mind of
man” as its motto, the Louis
Round Wilson Academy
approved its first general
resolutions (statements) on
ethics and openness – two
topics of special concern for
those responsible for the fu-ture
stewardship of recorded
knowledge.
The Academy is the central pillar that
supports The Knowledge TrustSM, a program
founded by Dr. José-Marie Griffiths, dean of the
School of Information and Library Science at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
in October 2005.
The statement on ethics includes principles
related to personal integrity, honesty and respect
for diverse perspectives; maintaining the vital
role of public trust; validation of the authentic-ity
of all materials; respect; and a commitment
to service.
Academy members also agreed that access
to information should be freely and easily
available to all, with due regard for safety and
human rights. The principles adopted in the
statement on openness encourages open access
to the world’s knowledge, with a balanced
regard and respect for the appropriateness and
dangers inherent in archives and other collec-tions
withheld from public view, and regard for
the necessity of restricted access to certain forms
of information.
Representing business, academe, informa-tion
technology, museums, librarianship and
digital era innovators, academy members trav-eled
from all parts of the globe to contribute to
their continuing discussion about how to shape
the education, professional practice and ethos of
future generations of knowledge professionals.
The academy is developing a common
vision to prepare the next generation of knowl-edge
professionals – information specialists,
librarians, technologists, curators, archivists
and other stewards of knowledge – for an ever-changing
environment and the challenges it
presents.
These professionals will be expected to
guide individuals through the masses of infor-mation
they receive, to validate the authenticity
of information and to provide stewardship,
preservation and access for a global public.
When Griffiths established The Knowledge
TrustSM, she, the school faculty and UNC leaders
made a formal commitment to re-define and
affirm the essential role and preparation of
21st-century knowledge professionals. The term
knowledge trust also is used to describe the
totality of the world’s recorded knowledge, as
well as the professionals who are stewards
of this knowledge.
“When we first met less than a year ago,
we determined that our next meeting should
be in a special place,” said Griffiths. “It should
be a place symbolic of the highest values of
stewardship of the knowledge trust and of the
benefits and joys derived from the increase and
diffusion of knowledge by and among men and
women of good will of all races, colors
and creeds.
“What better place than Andulusia, what
better symbol than Granada and what better
example than their great libraries of the high
Middle Ages whose patrons and stewards in a
culture of tolerance preserved, protected and
passed down to the latest generation much of
what is known of the ancient cultural heritage
of three great traditions: Jewish, Christian and
Muslim?”
During the meeting, academy members
focused on the principles
of ethics and openness
throughout their discus-sions.
The group touched on
topics such as the blurring of
access to public and private
information; the new and
powerful search engines and
how they are administered;
the preservation of digital
images and records in the
public domain for all to ac-cess;
and the importance of
understanding new laws.
The group also heard and
participated in discussion on
topics related to return on investment in librar-ies,
re-balancing access to the world’s wealth of
knowledge and shaping a new role and identity
for the 21st-century knowledge professionals.
Sixteen members of the Louis Round
Wilson Academy were formally inducted during
a ceremony held in the 15th-century Marble
Courtyard of the Hospital Real at the University
of Granada.
The newest members of the Louis Round
Wilson Academy include:
• Chris Batt, chief executive, Museums,
Libraries and Archives Council, London
• Dr. Lynne Brindley, chief executive, The
British Library
• Ubaldo Gonzalez, senior representative,
Spanish Ministry of Finance, Embassy of
Spain, Washington, D.C.
• Jay Jordan, president and CEO, OCLC Online
Computer Library Center Inc.
• Donald King, visiting scholar at UNC at
Chapel Hill; research professor, University of
Pittsburgh
• Paula Le Dieu, director, iCommons
• Dr. Cathy Norton, director, Marine Biological
Library/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
in Massachusetts
• Dr. Wayne Pond, director, Program in Human­ities
and Human Values, UNC at Chapel Hill
• Tom Rabon, executive vice president, Corpo-rate
Affairs, Red Hat, Inc.
Academy members and representatives of SILS faculty met in Granada, Spain in April.
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• Dr. Yael Ravin, program director, Learning and Organizational Performance, IBM
• Dr. Terry Sharrer, health sciences curator, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History
• Dr. Robert Shelton, president, University of Arizona
• John Wilkin, associate university librarian for Library Information Technology and Technical and Access Services, University of Michigan
• Dr. Ian Wilson, librarian and archivist, Library and Archives Canada
• Dr. Ann Wolpert, director, MIT Libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Nicole Wong, associate general counsel, Google, Inc.
The Granada meeting was hosted and sponsored by the University of Granada, the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science and the Spanish
Embassy in Washington D.C. The Academy was welcomed to Spain and the city of Granada by University of Granada representatives Rector D. David
Aguilar Peña; Manuel Diaz Carrillo, vice rector for international and institutional relations; Dr. Antonio Sanchez Pozo, vice rector and commissioner
for the European higher education area; Josefina Vilchez Pardo, dean of the faculty of information and library science; and Antonio Marin Ruiz, direc-tor
of communications.
Representatives of the Spanish government who hosted and sponsored the meeting were Carlos Westendorp, ambassador to the United States;
Miguel Martinez, senior representative of the ministry of education and science; and Ubaldo Gonzalez of Washington, D.C., senior representative of the
Spanish Ministry of Finance. The next meeting will focus on the topic of educating the 21st century knowledge professional. q
Statement on Ethics Statement on Openness
We, the members of the Louis Round Wilson Academy, mindful of
our personal and professional responsibilities as stewards of The
Knowledge TrustSM, and of our duty to those who will succeed us,
do, on this day, April 27th, 2006, in the ancient City and University
of Granada, hereby adopt and affirm the following:
Statement on Ethics, The Knowledge TrustSM and its
Stewards
Be it resolved that ethical stewardship of The Knowledge TrustSM
implies an unremitting dedication to the following principles:
• A commitment to personal stewardship of the global knowledge
trust characterized by personal integrity, honesty and respect for
diverse perspectives;
• An unremitting dedication to trustworthiness, with an abiding
respect and regard for maintaining the vital role of public trust on
one’s personal reputation and the standing of the profession;
• An unwavering dedication to the principle of clear, open and
readily accessible validation of the authenticity of all materials
residing in the global knowledge trust;
• A principled dedication to respect;
• A personal dedication to an active engagement in the increase
and diffusion of knowledge, and a commitment to service as its
uncompromising advocate;
• A commitment to “Eternal hostility against every form of tyranny
over the mind of man;” and
• A resolve to exhibit the courage commensurate with the nobility
of one’s convictions.
We, the members of the Louis Round Wilson Academy, mindful of our
personal and professional responsibilities as stewards of The Knowledge
TrustSM, and of our duty to those who will succeed us, do, on this day,
April 27th, 2006, in the ancient City and University of Granada, hereby
adopt and affirm the following:
Statement on Openness, The Knowledge TrustSM and its
Stewards
Be it resolved that humankind’s recorded knowledge should be freely
and easily available to all, with due regard for safety and human rights,
and appropriately balanced compensation for creativity and innovation.
These general principles, we believe, imply and demand:
• A balanced regard and respect for the appropriate roles of public,
private and proprietary knowledge;
• An active commitment to complete, honest and accurate annotation
of all knowledge entrusted to one’s care and an equally rigorous com-mitment
to the application of this principle to the knowledge trust as a
whole, both now and for all time;
• A commitment to faithfully facilitate access to the knowledge trust, to
encourage and promote collaboration and innovation in service to all
humankind;
• A wary and vigilant regard for both the appropriateness and dangers
inherent in archives and other collections withheld from public view,
coupled with a commitment to openness as a first principle;
• A due regard for the necessity of restricted access to certain forms of
information, balanced by a commitment to the minimization of
restriction, and a prejudice for error on the side of openness when the
case for restriction is in doubt; and
• A commitment to openness and access with due regard to appropri-ate
and balanced compensation for meaningful contributions to the
knowledge trust.
Continued from page 4
The School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been awarded a grant of $562,041
from the Institute of Museum of Library Services. The funded project, “Preserving Access to Our Digital Future: Building an International Digital Cura-tion,”
is designed to develop an innovative, modular curriculum to educate graduate students in the emerging field of digital curation.
The proposal was awarded in the category of “Programs to Build Institutional Capacity.” It will be
a collaboration between SILS and the National Archives and Records Administration, and features an
advisory board of 17 international scholars and digital preservation specialists from countries including
the United States, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Italy and the Netherlands.
The three-year project will fund Carolina Digital Curation Fellows, who will be a part of the first
generation of digital curators. They will enroll in courses created as part of the new curriculum. Expe-riential
components across campus involving the students in actual digital curation work, will enhance
their learning and insight into important issues and realities and will provide a model that can be implemented on other campuses while meeting the
curation needs in these environments.
The issues of digital curation will also be highlighted by two symposia that will establish forums of discussion to the broad library, archives and
museum communities. These public events will take place in April 2007 and spring 2009.
Preservation of access to digital assets stands as one of the grand challenges of the early 21st Century, explains Dr. Helen Tibbo, the project’s prin-cipal
investigator. “Such preservation is dependent upon sound digital curation. Digital curation is the active management and preservation of digital
resources over the life-cycle scholarly and scientific interest, and over time for current and future generations of users,” she said. She acknowledges
that while digital curation research has become more prevalent, education of future professionals to work in the field has not.
“In preparing students to work in the 21st century trusted digital repository, wherever that may be found, we seek to take relevant existing
coursework and blend it with new materials, content and courses from other disciplines such as computer science, economics and education as neces-sary.
The resulting curriculum will most likely extend well beyond the existing borders of information and library science education and require new
configurations of classes and alliances on our campuses.”
Dr. Cal Lee, SILS assistant professor, is another researcher involved in the project along with Project Assistant John Schaeffer.
SILS receives $562,041 to preserve a digital future
NHPRC Fellows selected for 2006-2007
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) Electronic Records Research Fellowship Program
has announced its selection of the 2006-2007 Fellows. The Fellows and their projects include:
Daphne Arnaiz-DeLeon
Archives and Historical Services Division Director, New Mexico State Records Center and Archives
“Global XML Data Model - New Mexico Public Records”
Don Chalfant
Archival Electronic Records & Special Media Coordinator, & Kathy Jordan, Electronic Resources Manager, The Library of
Virginia
“Developing Processing Practices and Workflows for Electronic Archival Records”
Kathryn Hammond Baker & Elizabeth Copenhagen
Manager, Special Collections and Records Manager, Countway Library, Harvard Medical School
“Metadata Models for Scientific Research Data”
Erin O’Meara
University Records Manager, University of Oregon Libraries
“A Recordkeeping Framework for Social Scientists Conducting Data-Intensive Research”
The researchers will receive $15,000 to conduct their project research during the course of the upcoming year. They will
present their planned work at the 3rd annual NHPRC Electronic Records Research Symposium, Friday, October 6, 2006 at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The report of their results will take place at the 2007 symposium at UNC
next year.
Daphne Arnalz-DeLeon
Don Chalfant
Erin O’Meara
Henderson Lecture reveals books on trial
“Books on Trial: Witch Hunt in the Heartland and a
Nation’s Response” was the title of the 2005 fall Henderson
Lecture by husband and wife team, Professors Wayne and
Shirley Wiegand. The lecture took place on Sept. 26, 2005
during Banned Books Week – a celebration of our freedom to
read – in the Pleasants Family Assembly Room of the Wilson
Library at UNC at Chapel Hill.
The lecture focused on a 1940 raid of an Oklahoma City
bookstore by police officers, who confiscated more than 7,000
books and arrested 16 people. Oklahoma officials then put
the book proprietors on trial, and prosecuted and sentenced four of those
arrested to ten years in prison and fines of $5,000.
The Wiegands presented the previously untold story of the trials, the
public book burning and the appeals process ultimately used to reverse the
decisions.
“The lecture is a colorful and richly detailed case study in American
social and legal history with many parallels to the present,” said Dr. Wayne
Wiegand, “another time when real emergencies have been used to trample
on the civil rights of American citizens and in the process pose threats to
their freedom to read.”
Wayne A. Wiegand is F. William Summers professor of
Library and Information Studies (and professor of American
Studies) at Florida State University, and author of numer-ous
books (including Irrepressible Reformer: A Biography
of Melvil Dewey) and articles in American print culture and
library history.
Shirley A. Wiegand is professor of Law at the Marquette
University Law School, and author of many scholarly articles
that address issues of civil liberties and conflict resolution.
The annual Henderson Lecture was established in 1990
to honor the memory of Lucile Kelling Henderson, faculty member
(1932-1960) and dean (1954-1960) of what was then known as the
School of Library Science.
Previous lecturers include Dr. Barbara Rimer, dean of the School
of Public Health; Dr. Fred Kilgour, formerly a distinguished research
professor in the School of Information and Library Science and
founder of OCLC the Online Computer Library Center, Inc.; and Dr.
Herbert Van de Sompel, team leader of the Digital Library Research and
Prototyping Team at the Research Library of the Los Alamos National
Laboratory. q
SILS hosts JCDL 2006
More than 480 experts and others interested in digital libraries
and information science from 28 countries attended the successful
6th annual ACM/IEEE CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries June
11 -15, 2006.
Hosted by the School of Information and Library Science, at-tendees
were treated to a panel discussion by Daniel Clancy, engineer
director of Google Print; David Ferriero, Andrew W. Mellon director
and chief executive of Research Libraries at New York Public Library;
Daniel Greenstein, University librarian, California Digital Library.
Moderated by Clifford Lynch, director of the Coalition for Networked
Information, the panel discussed “Getting Books Online: Practices
and Strategies.” Jonathan Zittrain, co-founder of the Berkman
Center for Internet & Society, provided the plenary address on “Open
Information: Redaction, Restriction and Removal.”
Conference chair, Dr. Gary Marchionini, noted that this year’s
event attracted an international mix of digital library researchers as
well as many librarians who are grappling with the challenges of
expanding their digital collections and services while maintaining
their rich physical collections and user services. “The meeting dem-onstrates
SILS’ leadership role in advancing digital library research
and practice,” he said.
The conference included full-day tutorials on topics ranging
from an “Introduction to Digital Libraries,” to “Advanced Applica-tions
of the Fedora Service Framework,” to “Metadata and Resource
Exchange Using the Open Archives.” Throughout the week, a number
of sessions on the “Visualization for Libraries,” “Named Entities,”
“Classification and Links,” “Digital Preservation,” “Document Analy-sis,”
“Time and Space,” “Digital Library Curriculum,” “Augmenting
Interoperability Across Scholarly Repositories,” “Images and Sound,”
“Information Retrieval,” “Supporting Education,” Metadata in
Action,” and “Usage and Relationships” were presented.
Dr. Jane Greenberg, SILS associate professor, and Thomas
Seveiens of Universitat Osnabruck, Germany, presented a full-day
workshop on “Metadata Tools for Digital Resource Repositories.”
Drs. Helen Tibbo, SILS professor, and Cal Lee, SILS assistant profes-sor,
along with Drs. Philip Eppard, SUNY at Albany, and Soo Young
Rieh, Karen Markey and Elizabeth Yakel of the University of Michi-gan
led a workshop on “Digital Curation and Trusted Repositories,
Seeking Success.” Both workshops were filled to capacity.
Winners of the Vannevar Bush Best Paper award, sponsored by
ACM, were: “Metadata aggregation and “automated digital librar-ies”:
A Retrospective on the NSDL experience,” by Timothy Cornwell,
Naomi Dushay, Dean Erktrom, Dean Krafft and Carl Lagoze; and
“EcoPod: A Mobile Tool for Community Based Biodiversity Collec-tion
Building,” by Aswath Manoharan, Andreas Paepcke, Jeannie A.
Stamberger and Yuan Yuan Yu.
The best poster winner was “An Analysis of the Bid Behavior of
the 2005 JCDL Program Committee” by Marko A Rodriguez, Johan
Bollen and Herbert Van de Sompel.
Program chairs included Cathy Marshall of Microsoft,
Corporation and Michael L. Nelson of Old Dominion University.
Dr. Barbara Wildemuth served as conference treasurer and Wanda
Monroe was publicity chair for the US. SILS faculty members, Drs.
Jane Greenberg, Bradley Hemminger, Diane Kelly, Jeff Pomerantz
and Helen Tibbo were among the 84 members of the international
Program Committee. Elizabeth Evans of ITS, handled logistics.
JCDL 2007 will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada on June 17-23.
School News
The first of three annual Lifelong
Access Libraries Institutes was held on the
campus of the University of North Caro-lina
at Chapel Hill on July 30 through
August 4, 2006. The event introduced
participants to Lifelong Access, a new
service framework for public libraries.
Selected by a panel of national
advisors and Americans for Libraries
Council staff, the 23 Fellows attending
the Institute were mid-career practicing
librarians who are enthusiastic, success-ful,
experienced and committed to the
First Lifelong Access Libraries Institute convenes at UNC
lifelong access community.
The Institute is based on the principle of
“action learning,” in which the acquired skills
and knowledge will be put to practical use at
libraries over a sustained period of time. As time
goes on, Fellows will be linked electronically
in a national community of practice based on
information exchange and communications.
Presented by Americans for Libraries
Council (ALC), a nonprofit organization that
champions the role of libraries in American
society, the Lifelong Access Libraries Insti-tute
focused on three areas: 1) Concepts and
research underlying new approaches to working
with midlife and older adults; 2) Promising
practices in library services, including the Life-long
Access framework for older adult services;
and 3) Leadership and skills in community
librarianship.
Diantha D. Schull, president of ALC
welcomed the group to the inaugural meeting.
The collaboration in ensuring the success of
the Institute was represented in the welcoming
remarks made by Dr. José-Marie Griffiths, dean
of SILS; Mary L. Boone, state librarian; Dr.
Irene Owens, dean, School of Library Science,
North Carolina Central University; and Dr.
Victor Marshall, director of the UNC Institute
on Aging.
“We are so pleased to be able to convene
library professionals who are committed to
meeting a new population with new services
and opportunities,” said Gloria Coles, national
director of Lifelong Access Libraries for ALC.
“They will form a cadre of leaders, who by
sharpening their own practices and brain-storming
new ones can help libraries across the
nation experiment, innovate and really reach
out to older active adults.”
SILS and the Institute on Aging (IOA) at
UNC partnered with ALC to host the Fellows who
came from across the country. SILS Professor,
Dr. Joanne Marshall, and Heidi Madden, SILS
project manager, participated in the conference
along with IOA faculty members.
The Institute is one component of ALC’s
multi-year Lifelong Access Libraries initiative,
funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies. The $2.7
million grant is enabling the development of a
nationwide network of Lifelong Access Libraries,
showcasing a new model for library services
focused on baby boomers and older adults
making the transition to active civic participa-tion
and lifelong learning in retirement.q
The first Lifelong Access Libraries Institute pose for a group photo.
Where are you? NC LIS graduates
asked to participate in study
This fall, over 8,000 graduates of the six library and information science
programs in North Carolina will be asked to participate in a career study
funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Workforce
Issues in Library and Information Science (WILIS) is a very important
study for the profession, said Professor Joanne Gard Marshall, principal
investigator. “Since LIS is not a licensed profession, we do not know
much at all about the careers of those who graduate from master’s
programs and the factors that affect recruitment and retention,” said
Marshall. “With so many members of our profession reaching retire-ment
age over the next decade, this study will provide important data
for workforce planning and transition.” Graduates are encouraged to participate by sending their current e-mail address to wilis@unc.edu. Other SILS
researchers working on the WILIS project include Drs. Deborah Barreau, Barbara Moran and Paul Solomon. For additional information about the
study, please check the Web site: http://www.wilis.unc.edu/
School News
Library and Information Science professionals from around the
world will come together for the 4th International Conference on
Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP4) hosted by
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on May 6-9, 2007. The
conference will offer scholarly discussions about the future of evidence-based
practice in the information professions and serve as a forum for
current research taking place in the field. It will be followed by two days
of continuing education opportunities on May 10-11.
“Evidence-based library and information practice is an exciting
concept that promises to transform our profession,” said Dr. Joanne
Gard Marshall, organizer and alumni distinguished professor at SILS.
“Following on successful conferences in the UK, Canada and Australia,
2007 is a perfect year to host this ground-breaking international confer-ence
in the U.S. We look forward to sharing ways of linking research
to practice. Using our knowledge base in this way has the potential to
inform decision-making in all types of libraries and information settings
and to assist in knowledge transfer and development during this time of
demographic transition in our field.” The conference will address topics
such as:
• Improving the quality of library and information services
• Building and accessing the knowledge base of the profession
• Defining and setting standards for evidence-based practice
• The role of library administrators, professional associations and
other stakeholders in promoting evidence-based practice
• Identifying key practice areas requiring systematic review of the
evidence
• Learning from professions that have implemented evidence-based
practice
In addition,
the conference will
highlight papers and
posters that present
research based on
the highest standards
of evidence-based
librarianship, as well
as workshops on how
to do evidence-based
practice, how to as-sess
the library and
information science
literature and how to
apply evidence-based
practice in different
kinds of library and information settings.
Evidence-based librarianship, as defined by Anne McKibbon, et al.
at the 1996 ASIS&T meeting is, “an approach to information science
that promotes the collection, interpretation and integration of valid,
important and applicable user-reported, librarian-observed and re-search-
derived evidence. The best available evidence, moderated by user
needs and preferences, is applied to improve the quality of professional
judgments.”
The biennial conference has previously been held throughout the
world. The 2007 conference is the first time it will be held in the United
States. More information about the conference may be found at:
http://www.eblip4.unc.edu/
UNC to host international conference on evidence-based
library and information practice
From left to right, Andrew Booth, University of Sheffield,
United Kingdom; Helen Partridge, Queensland University
of Technology, Australia; Joanne Marshall, School of
Information and Library Science, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, U.S.; Jonathan Eldredge, Health
Sciences Library and Informatics Center, The University
of New Mexico, U.S.; and Gillian Hallam, Queensland
University of Technology, Australia.
in the library, expenditures and a staff survey,
respectively.
Surveys are being distributed in groups
by type of library. The special library survey
was the first to be distributed on August 3,
2006. The surveys will be sent to libraries
according to the following timeline:
• Public libraries - September 2006
• School libraries - October 2006; with
an alternative of January 2007
• Academic libraries - January 2007
We are in the process of gathering
information from people and we will be send-ing
periodic reminders. If your library or any
colleagues received this survey, we urge you to
fill it out, as the project will be more accurate
with a larger response. The public library
By Sarah Aerni
SILS researchers are teaming up with many
professional librarian groups across the country
to produce a ground-breaking study about the
future of the librarian profession. A major
goal of this project is to survey 6,000 special
libraries, 6,000 school libraries, and all public
and academic libraries about their current and
future workforce needs. Projections of number
and type of library positions (and the associated
skills that will be needed for these positions)
will then be made for the library field out to the
year 2015.
The survey questions have been split into
five different parts, in order to minimize the
time necessary to complete it. The length of the
survey is only about 25 questions. The different
parts contain questions about library functions,
services provided, competencies required for jobs
surveys are scheduled to be sent out by the end
of September, with school and academic library
surveys to be sent later in the year.
Analysis and projections of future library
workforce needs will be completed after the
surveys are returned. The research team is
pairing up with researchers at SLA, ARL, ALA,
MLA, AALL, AASL, the University of Pittsburgh
and Syracuse University, among others, to com-plete
the project. Further information about
the project can be found at the project Web site:
http://libraryworkforce.org.
SILS researchers involved with this project
include Dean José-Marie Griffiths, principal
investigator; Visiting Scholar Donald W. King;
Professor Joanne Gard Marshall; Rebecca
Vargha; Beth Ellington; Professor Evelyn Dan-iel;
Kathleen McClatchey and Sarah Aerni. q
The IMLS Future of Librarians in the Workforce Study Study
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National expert in school
library media joins SILS
National expert in school library media, Dr. Sandra
Hughes-Hassell, joined the SILS faculty as an associate profes-sor
on July 1.
“I’m very excited about Sandra Hughes-Hassell coming here
to head our school library media program,” said Dr. Evelyn H.
Daniel, professor. “I am looking forward to working with Sandra
in the fall semester, as I begin my transition from program coordi-nator
to backseat advisor for the school library program as I move
towards retirement.”
Many recent SILS graduates will recognize Sandra’s name
from her book, The Information-Powered School, which SILS uses
in its school library classes.
Sandra comes to SILS from Drexel University where she was
an associate professor in the College of Information Science and
Technology. Sandra earned her Ph.D. from SILS in 1998. She
has a master’s in education with a major in Library Science, and
a bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education from James
Madison University. q
New outstanding staff award
The first School of Information and Library Science Staff Excel-lence
Award Ceremony was held on May 12 in Manning Hall during
the State’s Employee Appreciation Week. Beth Dye, student services
manager and Marcia Tauber, office assistant IV, were recognized by
Dean José-Marie Griffiths for their excellence, commitment, teamwork
and outstanding service to the School.
Both Marcia and Beth are known for their high quality of work,
responsiveness to others and positive attitudes. Their contributions to
SILS have enhanced the School’s reputation and made the office an
enjoyable place to be for students, faculty and staff. The award includes
a framed certificate, $500 and three days of additional vacation. It will
be presented to two outstanding staff members selected by a committee
each spring. q
Marcia Tauber (left) and Beth Dye (right) accept their
certificates from Dean Griffiths.
organization that provides funding through grants to universities and
colleges for research in areas of science, mathematics, social science
and computer science. The Board approves the strategic directions and
budget of the NSF and reviews and approves its awards.
“I am honored by this nomination and consider it a privilege
to work with other members of the Board at this critical time in the
nation’s scientific competitiveness,” said Griffiths. “The U.S. faces poten-tial
erosion of its scientific leadership as the number of American science
and engineering graduates declines, and as research and development
efforts move offshore.
“The nation faces challenges as scientific efforts become more
multidisciplinary and collaborative, and in the need to balance invest-ments
in long-term basic research against short-medium term applica-tions,”
she said. “I look forward to devoting time and effort to these
issues to help ensure that the U.S. retains its science and engineering
leadership.” q
Dean Griffiths named to NSB Continued from page 1
Kate Barnhart joined the SILS Library as
Library technical assistant II on July 6, 2006.
She comes to our library from the UNC Library
Development Office where she has worked for
the past five years. Kate has a degree in fine
art and enjoys teaching and playing music--
including the guitar, banjo and dulcimer. She
is also a storyteller, and she coordinates the
Visiting Fulbright Scholar
This spring, SILS welcomed
Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Gordana
Stokic, from the Library and
Information Science
Department, the Department
of Philology of Belgrade,
Belgrade University, Serbia and
Montenegro. Gordana’s
research focused on “The
Dissemination of the U.S. Library Profession Best Practice in Serbia.”
While in the U.S., Gordana visited with SILS, the New York Public
Library, the Urban Libraries Council and the Library of Congress. q
From left, Gordana Stokic, Dr. Evelyn
Daniel and Carol Carr.
annual “Winter Stories” event held each December to the delight of the
local community.
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Dr. David Carr, SILS associate professor,
has published his second collection of essays,
A Place Not a Place: Reflection and Possibil-ity
in Museums and Libraries, (publisher:
AltaMira Press).
The compilation, which has received
impres­sive
reviews by both scholars and profes-sionals,
becomes a journey for readers as they
are led through Carr’s thoughts.
“This remarkable book reminds us of and
reinforces in us the critical role that our libraries and museums play in
our society – the instruments of our persistent pursuit of our own identi-ties
and ideal selves,” said Dr. Robert S. Martin, former director of the
Institue of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and professor and Lillian
Bradshaw Endowed Chair at Texas Woman’s University. “Every library
and museum professional will profit from David Carr’s thoughtful obser-vations
and careful articulation of what really goes on within our walls.”
“I wrote these essays to remind my readers that complex things
occur when we are in the presence of information,” Dr. Carr said. “Librar-ies
and museums are not simply locations. They are also experiences of
mind and hope, and enemies of despair. We find surprising differences in
them and come to understand surprising differences in ourselves.”
Carr’s first book, The Promise of Cultural Institutions, was pub-lished
in 2003. q
What’s Happening with Faculty & Staff
New book reflects on possibilities
in musuems and libraries
Paul Jones and the Blooker Prize go worldwide
“So I finish a jog along the Blue Nile and climb into my truck. It’s
dusk and I can get the BBC on the a.m. dial at night so I give it a try. Who
is that? I know that voice. Why is Paul on my radio in Khartoum? Am I
going mad?”
This was Mark McCarthy’s posting, which he wrote from Khartoum’s
Humanitarian Information Center for Darfur – Sudan, on Paul Jones’
blog. And as it turns out, Paul Jones, a clinical associate professor and
director of the ibiblio online library and archive, was heard
around the world.
The posting came the day after the world’s first Blooker
Prize was awarded for Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Reci-pes,
1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen. The Prize, created by Lulu.
com was established to honor publications that began life as
blogs and then transformed into books – termed “blooks.”
Jones was one of the judges of the first Blooker Prize.
Because of his involvement with the unique and tech-savvy
Prize, Jones has been contacted by media from around
the world including USA Today, ABC News, NPR, the Washington Post
and newspapers and broadcast stations in Australia, Japan, New Zealand,
Indonesia, Taiwan, Spain and more. The United Kingdom’s BBC sent a
camera crew to interview Jones about the prize and the importance of
blooks as a new medium.
“[The Prize] recognizes books that may not be recognized in other
formats and other places,” Jones said in the BBC News interview. “It recog-nizes
that something new in the way of production is coming that deserves
an award, deserves encouragement and can provide a new way to access
literature by previously unknown authors.”
The winner of the 2006 Blooker Prize is Julie Powel, a 32-year-old
New Yorker, who turned to blogging on Aug. 25, 2002. She chronicled a
year of her life as she cooked every recipe in Julia Child’s 1961
cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Since then,
Powel’s blog has evolved into the book (blook), Julie and Julia:
365 Days, 24 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen and quickly
gained a following, selling nearly 100,000 copies – all before the
onset of Blooker-mania.
“A great blook is not a blog shoveled on paper,” Jones said
about the genre. “Julie and Julia successfully makes the transition
and grows as it goes, having learnt from the blog readers.” A blog-ger
himself, Jones knows the importance of creating a following of
readers and the impact they can have on your writing. “It helps to have an
obsessed audience egging you on in your own eccentric obsessions” Jones
said. He will chair the selection committee for the 2007 Blooker Prize.q
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen is published by
Little, Brown and Company.
New Zealand calls on Carr
SILS faculty travel the globe to share their expertise and the results of
their research. When he’s not busy with his writing and teaching, Dr.
David Carr is frequently invited to present at locations around the world.
In July, through the support of several organizations, including
the U.S. Ambassador and New Zealand’s office of National Services, Carr
traveled to New Zealand to participate in a number of activities.
At a conference of the Museum Education Association of New
Zealand in Rotorua, Carr delivered the keynote address, “A Museum
of Identity and Exchange.” He also presented a workshop presentation
using personal collections, titled “What object is here?”
At the Museum of Wellington City and Sea, Carr delivered a public
presentation called “Four evidences,” about the need for public cultural
spaces. “We need a language that helps us to live beyond our limits,” he
said, “and a place where we can speak it.” While in Wellington, he also
met in an open forum with the National Librarian, Penny Carnaby, and
senior staff of of the National Library of New Zealand. Then it was off to a
Museum directors’ meeting and a museum studies seminar workshop for
two days at the School of Maori Studies, Massey University, in Palmerston
North, one of the sponsors of Carr’s two-week visit.
“My museum, library and public audiences throughout the nation
were engaged and interested in the essential ways that cultural institu-tions
serve citizens,” Carr says. “Because of the rich Maori presence in
New Zealand, the recognition of cultural and social difference and the
value of deep cultural knowledge are important every day.” q
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Faculty & Staff News
Dr. Deborah Barreau
presented “Organizational
Challenges: Commu-nication,
Records, and
Personal Information
Management” in Febru-
SILS Librarian, ary 2006 as part of New
Rebecca Vargha,
was inaugurated as
the Special Libraries
Association (SLA)
president during the
annual confer-ence
in June. She
is the first person from the state of North
Carolina to be chosen for this leadership
position.
“Becoming president of SLA is the
beginning of a journey for me, one that be-gan
early in my career,” Vargha said about
her new position. “I am truly honored and
humbled to lead the organization for the
next 18 months.”
During her inaugural speech, Vargha
highlighted three key areas that she will
focus on during her term:
• Increasing membership growth and
retention.
• Planning SLA’s 100th anniversary
celebration in 2009.
• Reaching a net growth of 1,000
members by the 100th anniversary.
She plans to achieve these goals
through a Membership Working Group,
strategic conference exhibits and expand-ing
the successful Member-Get-a-Member
campaign.
In her address, Vargha acknowledged
the dynamic evolution of North Carolina
from an economy based on tobacco, timber
and textile industries to one embracing a
“range of information-based technologies
and services.” “My vision for this associa-tion
is to focus our talent and energies on
creating a strong, vibrant force for learn-ing,
teaching and innovation throughout
the world.”
Vargha concluded her address by em-phasizing
the importance of collaboration:
“Our opportunities are endless, our journey
is long, but, working together, we can ac-complish
great things. The important first
step is to begin together.” q
Photo courtesy of the Photo Group 2006.
Rebecca Vargha
inaugurated as
SLA president
Dr. Joanne Gard Marshall completed her
three-years of service on the Board of the Medi-
Dr. Cal Lee, assistant
professor, his wife Jen and
big sister Sophia welcomed
Emerson Albert Lee who
arrived at 1:28 a.m. on
May 21, 2006. Emerson
weighed 8 lbs 6 oz and was
21.75 inches long.
Dr. Bob Losee’s paper
“Is 1 noun worth 2 adjec-tives?
Measuring relative
feature utility” appears in
the latest issue of Informa-tion
Process & Manage-ment
Tangentially (vol 42,
issue 5).
cal Library Association in May 2006. During her
year as president, Joanne established two task
forces to review and revise the association’s
policies on education and research. Joanne is
principal investigator of two IMLS funded edu-cational
grants at SILS, the Triangle Research
Network Doctoral Fellows program and the ARL
Fellows Program. She is also leading an IMLS-funded
career study of graduates of the six LIS
programs in North Carolina.
Charlotte
Pomerantz
was born to
proud parents,
Dr. Jeff
Pomerantz,
York Public Library’s Leadership Development
Program. In addition, Deborah participated at
the ACM SIG-IR Workshop on Personal Infor-mation
Management in August. She was invited
based on her paper, “Personal Information
Management in Context.” A poster, Deborah
co-authored with Abe Crystal, Jane Greenberg,
Anuj Sharma, John Oberlin, Michael Shoffner
and Steve Seiberling has been accepted for the
ASIS&T Annual meeting in November 2006.
Dr. Jane Greenberg, associate professor,
and doctoral student, Abe Crystal, had their
paper, “Relevence criteria identified by health
information users during Web searches,”
published online on June 8 by the Journal
of the American Society for Information
Science and Technology (ASIS&T). Jane, Abe
and Kristina Spurgin also saw their article,
“Functionalities for Automatic-Metadata
Generation Applications: A Survey of Metadata
Experts Opinions,” published in the Interna-tional
Journal of Metadata, Semantics, and
Ontologies. And, “Understanding Metadata
and Metadata Schemes,” was included in the
Cataloging & Classification Quarterly.
was published online by the Journal of
the American Society for Information
Science and Technology (ASIST) on June
8. Hughes-Hassell’s co-author was Denise E.
Agosto of Drexel Univerisity.
SILS Professor Dr. Diane Kelly and Ph.D.
student Xin Fu had a poster and their paper,
“Elicitation of Term Relevance Feedback: An
Investigation of Term Source and Context”
accepted for the Special Interest Group on
Information Retrieval (SIGIR) 2006.
SILS Associate Professor
Sandra ­Hughes-
Hassell’s paper,
“Toward a model of
the everyday life
information needs
of urban teenagers,”
assistant
professor, and his wife Yvonne on April 21.
Charlotte weighed 4 lbs 10 oz, and was 16.25
inches long.
“Google scholar and 100% availability of
information,” by Dr. Jeffrey Pomerantz
was published in a recent issue of Information
Technology and Libraries (ITAL). ITAL is
dedicating this entire year’s issues to Dr. Fred
Kilgour in honor of ITAL’s 25th year. This
article argues that Google Scholar is in the
spirit of Kilgour’s work. Jeff and doctoral
student, Fred Stutzman were also published
in Reference Services Review. The article is
entitled, “Collaborative reference work in the
blogosphere.” http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00907
320610669443.
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Faculty & Staff News
Dr. Marchionini appoint-ed
to National Library of
Medicine committee
Drs. Jerry Saye SILS professor
and Alenka Sauperl, visiting
scholar, saw their paper, “Cata-loging
Education on the Sunny
Side of the Alps” published in
the March 4 issue of Catalog-ing
& Classification Quarterly.
The paper describes the status
of library education in Slovenia,
with emphasis on cataloging and
classification courses. Their article
was also published in Educa-tion
for Library Cataloging:
International Perspectives, Dajin
D. Sun and Ruth C. Carter, editors,
pp. 269-286. Binghamton, NY:
Haworth Information Press, 2006.
Dr. Barbara
Wildemuth
participated in
a workshop on
“Privacy and
HCI: Meth-odologies
for
Studying Privacy Issues,” held
in conjuntion with the ACM SIG
CHI conference in April, 2006. In
addition, the results of an ACM
SIG CHI workshop have been
published in JASIST (v57 n6). It
included Barbara’s article titled,
“Evidence-based practice in search
of interface design.”
At the recent 2006 Joint Confer-ence
on Digital Libraries, Dr. Jeff
Pomerantz presented a paper
co-authored by Dr. Barbara
Wildemuth, and Ed Fox and
Seungwon Yang (from Virginia
Tech), on curriculum develop-ment
for education in digital librarian-ship.
Jeff and Barbara also participated in
the post-conference workshop on digital
library education, where she spoke about
discipline-based and international issues.
A brief report of the funded work on digital
library education also was published in the
latest issue of D-Lib Magazine.
A study of the interactivity in an electronic
mentoring system, conducted by Cara
Bonnett (a SILS alum), Barbara Wilde-muth
and Diane Sonnenwald (a former
faculty member), was recently published in
Instructional Science (v34 n1).
Barbara also spoke at the SURA/ViDe
(Video Development Initiative) conference
on “The Open Video Project: How people go
about searching video collections.”
Dr. Mark Win-ston,
SILS associate
professor, received
a 2006 Award of
Excellence from the
editorial board of
the New ­Library
World journal. The
article, “Leadership in Times of Crisis and
Change” was co-authored by Susan Quinn,
a librarian with Ocean County Library in
New Jersey. It was recognized as a highly
commended paper in the category of Li-brary
Management and Library Studies. In
addition, Mark was cited by Allyson Aird, et.
Al. in the Spring 2006 Reference and User
Services Quarterly article, “Why Library
and Information Science?”
Drs. Mark Winston and Jane Green-berg,
and master’s student, Christie
McDaniel, presented on the Curriculum
Review Task Force activities during SILS
Board of Visitors meeting in April.
Dr. Jane Greenberg attended the
Microsoft Research Faculty Summit in July,
and presented on Memex Metadata (M-2)
for Personal Educational Portfolios, during
Memex Day, in Redmont, WA.
Dr. Brian Sturm recently
completed a day-long workshop for
elementary school teachers entitled:
“Storytelling in Environmental
Education” for the NC Environmen-tal
Education Institute in Salter Path,
NC. The teachers explored the theory
of storytelling and then created their
own stories, practiced performance
techniques and discussed potential
curriculum connections.
Dr. Gary Marchionini,
Cary C. Boshamer Distin-guished
Professor at the School
of Information and Library
Science at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
has been appointed to a four
year term on the Biomedical
Library and Informatics Review Committee of the
National Library of Medicine (NLM). The National
Library of Medicine “is the world’s largest medical
library,” providing research services and information
for health care and biomedicine.
“The Biomedical Library and Informatics Re-view
Committee is a scientific merit review group for
the majority of NLM’s extramural grant applications
and performs the first step in the dual review process
followed by the final review of the Board of Regents.”
The committee meets three times a year in compli-ance
with the NIH review cycle.
Marchionini’s current projects include: “Us-ability
of Personal Health Records,” a project funded
by the National Cancer Institute, “Integration of Data
and Interfaces to Enhance Human Understanding of
Government Statistics: Toward the National Statistical
Knowledge Network,” a collaborative project funded
by the National Science Foundation (NSF); the Open
Video Project, the development of a digital video
repository; “Agile Views for vide browsing: Advanced
surrogates, control mechanisms and usability,” an
NSF-funded project to develop and test interfaces for
video retrieval and browsing; “Annotating Structured
Documents” a project supported by Microsoft; and
“Preserving Video Objects and Context: A Demon-stration
Project,” supported by an NSF-Library of
Congress grant intended to develop strategies for
preserving digital video context.
Paul Jones, clinical associate professor, and director
of ibiblio.org, was the featured poet in the Sunday,
June 4 issue of The News and Observer with his
poem, Dark Matters. Paul also participated in the
Harvard Law at the Berkman Center for Internet
and Society’s Beyond Broadcast conference where he
was a panelist, a convener and a contributor to the
unconference.
Great news for those who create or wish
to create two or many thousands of blogs
(Web logs) with just one installation! Staff
and students of ibiblio, located in the School
of Information and Library Science (SILS),
are developing innovative blogging software
that allows individual communication
exchange as well as large and varied group
communication.
A powerful Web publishing system,
Lyceum builds on WordPress software and
allows for ease of use while maintaining
high performance and security. It is ideal for
corporate intranets or universities that need
secure, manageable and high performance
blogging services for thousands of users.
Lyceum expands on the familiar features,
interface and tools of WordPress for users and
administrators.
Development
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Smallwood Foundation awards gift to develop blogging software
“As the Internet has grown and evolved, it
has become a place of collaboration, a forum
for discussion and a medium used to exchange
information at the click of a button,” said Paul
Jones, director of ibiblio. “This growth is exempli-fied
by the open source software, blogs and other
communication tools being used every day on the
Web. What better way to expand on enhancing
these opportunities to share ideas and thoughts
than to offer software to make it easy to create and
install blogs?”
The emerging generation of Web tools is
often described as Web 2.0. According to the
O’Reilly Network, which spreads the knowledge
of innovators through its books, online services,
magazine and conferences, the concept of Web
2.0 emerged during a conference brainstorming
session between O’Reilly and MediaLive Interna-tional.
Web 2.0 is an emerging generation of Web
tools and one of its components is “social
software.” Among this new software are blogs,
wikis, trackback, podcasting and videoblogs.
A gift of $25,000 was awarded to SILS to
create a fellowship in open source. The fellow-ship
will be used to continue the development
of the open source blogging system Lyceum.
The funding provided by the Frances C. and
William P. Smallwood Foundation, a grant-making
foundation that promotes technology
and education, will assist in refining the pro-gram
and making it available to users around
the world.
“The visionary gift from the Smallwood
Foundation will allow us to take the next steps
in innovation with Lyceum, that is to move the
project from an early test state to software that
can be widely used by a vibrant contributing
community,” said Jones. q
Dear Alumni:
Dr. Louis Round Wilson worked tirelessly to build the field
of librarianship. In 1926 he proposed that the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill establish a School of Library
Science. The Carnegie Corporation provided a generous
grant in 1929, allowing Dr. Wilson to see his recommenda-tion
come to fruition. On September 17, 1931, classes began
at UNC at Chapel Hill’s School of Library Science.
Seventy five years after it was founded, your alma
mater has sustained its ranking as the #1 graduate pro-gram
in information and library science by U.S. News and
World Report since 1999. This distinction adds value to
your degree and attracts the highest caliber of future information
professionals.
This fall, we will pay tribute to Dr. Wilson’s vision and a proud
heritage by kicking off a year-long 75th anniversary celebration of,
“Illuminating the past, imagining the future!” We need your sup-port
and participation to make this a memorable milestone.
You are cordially invited to join the School of Information
and Library Science diamond anniversary celebration. On Monday,
September 18, 2006, we will launch a program at Memorial Hall
in Chapel Hill featuring keynote addresses by Michael Ruettgers,
retired chairman and senior advisor of EMC Corporation and
Deanna Marcum, associate librarian for Library Services at the
Library of Congress; remarks by Robert S. Martin, SILS alumnus
and professor at Texas Women’s University who will speak about
Dr. Louis Round Wilson’s legacy; other university and state
officials plus entertainment. You will also view a video pre-sentation
that will take you down memory lane. Additional
launch activities being planned include a student research
and employment forum September 21; and an Adventures
in Ideas symposium titled, “Censorship, Privacy, National
Security and Other Dilemmas of the Information Age”
September 22-23.
But the fun doesn’t end there! We need your support
for additional events such as:
• Reunions
• Information and library science exhibits
• Symposia on important issues facing our field
• A grand finale that promises to be an exciting
culmination of the 75 years of, “Illuminating the
past, imagining the future!”
As you make plans to attend the festivities, please consider a gift
to support the 75th anniversary. Every gift is tax deductible and no gift
is too small. For gifts of $500 or more, sponsorship benefits are avail-able
(see http://sils.unc.edu/75thAnniversary for more details). We
look forward to celebrating with you and thank you for your thought-ful
consideration.
Sincerely,
Shawn Jackson
Development
Message
By Shawn Jackson,
Development Director
The auditorium was filled by a
captivated audience as award-win-ning
author Avi presented excerpts
from some of his latest works. Avi, an
internationally acclaimed author of
children’s and young adult’s literature,
was the keynote speaker for the 2006
Susan Steinfirst Memorial Lecture in
Children’s Literature, sponsored by the
School of Information and Library
Science on Saturday, March 4, 2006.
His literary performance, “My name is Avi,” was well received by his
many fans of all ages who came to see the author talk about his life and
his writing.
The audience was engaged by Avi’s readings from his works such as,
Poppy’s Return, The End of the Beginning, Things that Sometimes Hap-pen,
The Book Without Words and excerpts from his critically acclaimed
book, Crispin at the Edge of the World.
The event was followed by a reception and a book signing for the
enthusiastic crowd.
The biennial lecture honors the memory of Susan Steinfirst, a profes-sor
of children’s and young adult literature at SILS from 1976 to 1996. She
dedicated her life to the promotion of the genre by teaching future librar-ians
and by publishing scholarly works in the field. q
Award-winning author presents,
“My Name is Avi”
Lorcan Dempsey, vice president of Research and chief
strategist for OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
presented “Libraries, Logistics and the Long Tail” at the
inaugural 2006 OCLC/Frederick G. Kilgour Lecture in Infor-mation
and Library Science on February 22, 2006.
His talk focused on collaborative resources and
networking and the changes being brought about through
shared information. He noted that users will see services
moved to the network level, which will allow photos, docu-ments,
research reports, etc. to be more available in a variety
of places simultaneously.
The Lecture was established in
2004 by OCLC on Dr. Frederick G.
Kilgour’s 90th birthday. It brings
together scholars and leaders
from around the world to share
innovative ideas and cutting-edge
research. The lecture honors Dr.
Kilgour who was a distinguished
research professor emeritus at SILS
and founder of OCLC. He invented
the WorldCat database in 1971, developing the concept of
online shared cataloging. q
Kilgour Lecture presented by
OCLC’s Lorcan Dempsey
Miss Jean Freeman leaves legacy and funding for SILS programs
For more than 36 years, Miss Jean Free-man
was a devoted employee involved in nearly
every aspect of administration of what was then
the School of Library Science at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Initially hired
in 1941 as an executive secretary, Miss Freeman
worked with eight deans and assisted in a move
from one building to another, all while working
closely with the students to ensure they had
what they needed to successfully graduate. In
1977, she retired leaving a lasting impact on
the school.
During her years at the School, Jean
Freeman supervised admissions and financial
aid, helped with student placement, organized
alumni fairs and made sure that general ad-ministration
was ship-shape. She led a course
that introduced students to the School and was
in charge of Beta Phi Mu.
Even after her retirement, Jean Freeman
was dedicated to the profession of librarianship
and a reliable friend to the School, making
numerous contributions. On October 27, 2005,
she passed away peacefully at Springmoor
Retirement Community at the age of 93.
Jean Freeman is still supporting the
School that she so cherished. Through a
bequest in her will, she left $75,000 which
will benefit three separate funds at $25,000
each. The funds include: the Lucile Kelling
Henderson Lecture Fund, the Susan Grey
Akers Scholarship Fund and the Ed Holley
Student Research Fund. The Ed Holley Student
Research Fund, the only non-endowed fund of
the three, was selected by the class of 2005 with
a goal of endowing it at the minimum endow-ment
level of $20,000. With Jean’s gift, this
fund will now be endowed, providing student
research awards in perpetuity.
“We are grateful to Jean, not only for her
devotion to the School and the students during
her years here, but also to her extraordinary
generosity and insight to what matters to our
students,” said Dr. José-Marie Griffiths, dean
Miss Jean Freeman (on the left) Margaret Kalp, one
of eight deans with whom she worked during her
years at what is now the School of Information and
Library Science.
of SILS. “Because of her generous gift, our
students will benefit for years to come.”
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SILS Winter Commencement
The graduating classes of August 2005 and December 2005 join school faculty
for a portrait on the steps of the Louis Round Wilson Library.
The School of Information and Library
Science celebrated the graduation of August
and December 2005 students who received
their doctoral, masters’ and bachelors’ degrees
on December 18, 2005.
The commencement ceremony featured
special guest speaker Susan L. Perry, senior
advisor of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
and director of Programs for the Council on
Library Information Resources and SILS alum
(MSLS ’66), who presented, “Librarians. Are
we still relevant? You bet we are!.” Susan was
awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award by
the SILS Alumni Board during the ceremony.
Master of Science in
Information Science
Master of Science
in Library Science
Bachelor of Science in
Information Science
August/December 2005 SILS Graduates
Doctor of Philosophy
Christine Meredith Dicke
Brendan Barrett Doss
Eric Joseph Hoffman
Jesse Alan Kister
Eric Ryan Miller
Jennifer Bradley O’Bryan
Joshua Bert Purvis
Ileana Maria Rodriguez
William O.J. White
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Laura Lee Christopherson
Thomas Ryan Ciszek
Lourdes Cueva Chacõn
Vijay Deepak Dollu
Virginia Beth Ellington
Stephen Richard Barbe
Alison Dena Bradley
Matthew Edward Braun
Brian James Dietz
Halle Elizabeth Eisenman
Valerie Ann Gillispie
Charles Joseph Gray
Shauna Anne Griffin
William Preston Hannah
Elizabeth B Hubbe
Benjamin Allen Hunter
Jaime Beth Hunsinger
Peter Erik Hymas
Todd Toshio Ito
Dean Howard Jeffrey
Kathryn Elizabeth Knight
Robert William Lambert
Niamh Annie McGuigan
Rebecca Ann Pappert
Cynthia Carey Pierce
Kathleen Marie Pierce
Alison Anne Raab
Jennifer Marsico Ricker
Antoinette Watkins Satterfield
Christopher Jordon Steele
Sarah Walton Stokes
Elizabeth Lynn White
Certificate of
Advanced Study
Bin Li
Andrew Dexter May
Meng Yang
Jennifer Rae Bulger
Jonathan Louis Elsas
Timothy Michael Farris
Jackson Raymond Fox
Helen Amelia Hawkins
Samuel H. Kome
Lizhong Liu
Maureen Theresa McClarnon
Jonathan Lee Miller
Joseph Alexander Pippin, Jr
Shell Adair Thaxton
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Winter 2005 commencement’s keynote speaker, Susan Perry, was
honored during the ceremony as a distinguished alumna. Perry was
pleasantly surprised when the award was presented by SILS Alumni
Association Board President, Amy Gresko.
Perry, who graduated from SILS in 1966 with an MSLS, cur-rently
serves as senior advisor to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,
director of Programs for the Council on Libraries and Information
Resources (CLIR).
As a senior advisor to the Foundation, Perry works with libraries
and the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education,
a Mellon-supported initiative to help Mellon-supported liberal arts
colleges with issues regarding teaching and learning with technol-ogy.
At CLIR, her position allows her to collaborate with liberal arts
college library directors and she serves as one of the deans of The Frye
Institute.
Perry has sat on the American Libraries Association Council,
the EDUCAUSE Board, the New Media Centers Board, the Seminars
on Academic Computing Board and the Coalition for Networked
Information Steering Committee. She is currently serving on the
InCommon Executive Committee and the National Advisory Board
for a two year grant from the Institute of Museum & Library Services
to study the future of librarians and information professions in the
workforce.q
Susan Perry named
Distinguished
Alumna Two faculty members were honored with Outstanding Teacher
Awards for the 2005-2006 school year during the school’s May 15 com-mencement
ceremony. Dr. Stephanie W. Haas, professor, and Lisa
Norberg, adjunct assistant professor of practice, were nominated by
students on the basis of their teaching excellence, innovation, classroom
instruction and mentoring.
“[She] is well-known by both students and
colleagues as a very giving person always ready
to do what is needed for students, the school and
the profession,” said last year’s recipient Dr. Jerry
D. Saye, professor.
Haas was given the award based on her
strong relationships with students and her dedi-cation
to educating them “not just for today,”
but for what they may encounter in the future.
A member of the SILS faculty since 1989, Haas specializes in
natural language processing, information retrieval, sublanguage and
terminology, genre and discourse structure. She is a respected scholar
and teacher who consistently receives nominations for the Outstanding
Teacher Award as well as excellent reviews from both students and her
peers. She received the award the first year it was established in 1997.
Lisa Norberg received a special award
specifically honoring an adjunct faculty mem-ber.
She was described by those nominating
her as “an excellent classroom instructor who
is committed and inspiring” and a “model
teacher and practitioner” whose teaching and
professional example has been a beacon for
students. Norberg is active in students’ lives
both in and out of the classroom; they seek her
out as an advisor and mentor.
In addition to Norberg’s role as adjunct assistant professor of
practice at SILS, she is the coordinator of instructional services for the
Academic Affairs Library at UNC at Chapel Hill. q
2006 Outstanding
teachers named
Ph.D. student, Mary Wilkins Jordan, has been appointed Chair of the
Public Library Association’s Recruitment of Public Librarians committee. She
has been a member of the committee for two years, and wrote an article about
a survey the committee did that was published in the journal Public Libraries
last year. Mary was also recently appointed to the American Library Association
Orientation,Training and Leadership Development Committee.
MSLS student Elizabeth Matson has received the Patton Boggs Graduate
Internship at the Ackland Art Museum. She will be working on collection man-agement
and curatorial projects as well as some general museum administrative
tasks during the 2006-2007 school year.
Heather McCullough, MSIS student, made presentations this spring at the
UNC Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference in Raleigh and at the
Conference of the Mid-Atlantic Association for Language Learning Technology
held at the College of Charleston.
Fred Stutzman has been quoted in several journals and news articles recently
on the topics of Facebook.com and MySpace. On March 8, 2006, he was quoted in
an article entitled, “Alarms sound over athletes’ Facebook time,” in USA Today.
He was also quoted in the The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on July 16, 2006
in another athletic article discussing college sports teams and social networking
sites like MySpace and FaceBook.
Megan Winget successfully defended her dissertation on June 9. Megan will be
joining the University of Texas at Austin faculty in the fall.
Doctoral student Abe
Crystal has received the
2006 Zipf Fellowship in
Information Management.
The $10,000 award is
sponsored by the Council
on Library and Informa-tion
Resources (CLIR) and
according to its Web site, is given to a current graduate
student who “shows exceptional promise for leadership
and technical achievement in information manage-ment.”
“I am honored to receive the Zipf fellowship,
which will enable me to focus on and extend my dis-sertation
research,” Crystal said.
The fellowship honors information management
pioneer A.R. Zipf, who brought innovation to the bank-ing
industry during his forty-year career with the Bank
of America.
In addition, Crystal’s collaborative paper with
SILS Assistant Professor Jane Greenberg, “Relevence
criteria identified by health information users during
Web searches,” was published online June 8 in the
Journal of the American Society for Information
Science and Technology (ASIS&T).q
The National Library of Medicine
(NLM) has awarded School of Information
and Library Science doctoral student John
MacMullen a multi-year biomedical
informatics fellowship. The award will
fund MacMullen’s dissertation research
which will be a collaborative effort between
himself and Stanford University’s Depart-ment
of Genetics and the Gene Ontology
Consortium.
“The amount of biological data
and scientific publication from differ-ent
specialties have grown tremendously
in the past decade,” MacMullen said.
“This makes it difficult for scientists to
bring together related information from
multiple organisms. Some researchers are
addressing the problem with manually-curated
relationships using Gene Ontology
annotations. Our work investigates ways
to evaluate the effectiveness and quality
of annotations made by scientific cura-tors.
This may lead to better information
integration across databases.”
The fellowship began in spring 2006
and will provide MacMullen the opportu-nity
to conduct experiments on annotation
quality in model organism databases. It
includes a stipend and reimbursements
for tuition, fees, insurance, travel and
research expenses.
MacMullen earned his MSIS from
SILS in 1997, and holds a B.S. from North-eastern
University. He has been a member
What’s Happening with SILS Students
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SILS Ph.D. student
awarded fellowship
SILS doctoral student wins National Library of
Medicine Fellowship
of the Annotation Research group at SILS
since 2004. He worked as a project manager
in the data communications industry for
several years before returning to UNC as a re-search
fellow at the Health Sciences Library.
He then entered the doctoral program in
2002. q
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Greetings from the SILS Alumni Association!
The heat of summer is finally showing signs of
retreat and the leaves are just starting to show
some fall colors. As always, it is a beautiful thing
to be in Chapel Hill! Since the last edition of the
newsletter, the SILSAA Board has stayed quite busy.
At December’s commencement ceremony, Susan
Lane Perry was presented with the Distinguished
Alumni Award. Susan is currently the senior advi-sor
for Liberal Arts Colleges at the Andrew W. Mel-lon
Foundation and director of Programs at the
Council on Library and Information Resources.
In January, we presented two graduate students, Monica McCor-mick
and Phil Binkowski, with Elfreda A. Chatman Research Awards as
well as $150 each for their outstanding Masters Paper proposals.
This spring, SILSAA organized the Career Mentoring Connection
(formerly known as Mentoring Week) which paired undergraduate and
graduate SILS students with local professionals in their areas of inter-est.
We want to thank everyone who volunteered to be a mentor this
year and hope you will consider participating in the future.
May commencement marked the end of another academic year at
SILS. Evelyn Poole-Kober was honored with the Distinguished Alumni
Award this spring for her contributions to special librarianship and her
President’s
Message
By Amy Gresko
Alumni Association
Alumni News
Anthony “Tony��� Bull has worked
at the International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA) since graduating from
the School of Information and Library
Science (SILS) with an MSIS in May
2003. In October 2005, the IAEA and its
director were recognized as Nobel Peace
Prize laureates when the Norwegian Nobel
Committee awarded the prize. IAEA is
located in Vienna, Austria, and its Director
General, Mohamed ElBaradei received the
pretigious prize for their work of “incalculable importance.”
The Nobel Foundation recognized the organization and its director
for “their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military
purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used
in the safest possible way.” This award comes during a period of nuclear
threats and the Foundation wanted to acknowledge the importance of
promoting peace through “international cooperation.” The prize was
presented at a ceremony on December 10, 2005 in Oslo, Norway.
Bull is currently a developer for a project management Web appli-cation
which is used for approximately 1,400 projects around the world.
The system manages everything from organizing the logistics of nuclear
knowledge exchange, to the delivery of X-Ray machines, to the training
of the next generation of nuclear scientists.
“Although I’m primarily involved in the technical aspects of Web
development, I do get a chance to practice the user-centered design
and information architecture skills I learned while at SILS,” Bull said.
“One of the larger responsibilities I’ve had since being with the Agency
was managing a cross-departmental project to bring several hundred
information resources together.”
“Tony was an active leader during his time at SILS, serving as
ASIS&T Student Chapter President, and organizing an alumni mentor-ing
program for students,” said Dr. Gary Marchionini, Cary C. Boshamer
Distinguished Professor. “His dedication to information to serve human
needs was apparent during his studies here and it is no surprise that
he is involved with an agency that has been honored for advancing the
cause of international peace. He is an inspiration for informational
professionals everywhere.”q
continued support and advocacy for SILS. She is an expert sole-librar-ian
managing all library services for the Atmospheric Sciences Modeling
Division Library in the EPA’s National Exposure Research Laboratory and
the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration Air Resources Labora-tory.
Four students were given Outstanding Service to the School awards
along with checks for $50 each: Ron Bergquist (Doctoral), Joan Petit and
Maggie Hite (Masters), and John Walker (Undergraduate).
Looking ahead, we will be hosting our traditional New Student
Reception on the afternoon of September 21st. This year the event will be
held right outside the Pleasants Room in Wilson Library, and all alumni
are encouraged to come and greet the new students. The reception is
during the 75th anniversary celebration week and we hope you will be a
part of the events!
In order to help us keep you informed of our activities, I encourage
you to verify your subscription to the sils-alumni listserv, and join if you
are not a current subscriber. The traffic is extremely light and the list
provides an invaluable communication tool. Visit http://listserv.unc.edu/
select “search for lists” on the right-hand side of the screen and search
for “sils” or “alumni” (a more directed search, unfortunately, is not pos-sible).
Find the “sils-alumni” list in the retrieval set and chose to visit or
subscribe to the list. You may also keep up with our activities by visiting
our Web site at: http://ils.unc.edu/alumni/
Graduate works for Nobel Peace Prize winning organization
Greetings from SILS Alumni Association
Alumni News
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President
George W.
Bush has
nominat-ed
SILS
gradu-ate,
Dr.
Robert
S. Mar-tin
(Ph.D. ’88), to serve on the National
Council on the Humanities, an advisory
board to the National Endowment for the
Humanities (NEH).
The National Council on the Humani-ties
is a board of 26 distinguished private
citizens appointed by the president and
confirmed by the Senate who advise the
chairman of the NEH. Martin’s service to
the board is a six-year term ending January
26, 2012.
“With his impressive accomplish-ments
at the national and international
levels, Bob Martin is an excellent fit for
this appointment,” said Dr. José-Marie
Griffiths, dean of the School of Informa-tion
and Library Science at UNC at Chapel
Hill. “He will bring significant expertise
and knowledge to the Board as it provides
recommendations to the NEH.”
The NEH is an independent grant-making
agency that seeks to promote re-search
and the development of programs in
humanities throughout the United States.
Created in 1965, the endowment
provides the largest amount of funds to hu-manities
programs in the country through
grants to pursue its mission of preserving
and providing access to cultural resources,
education, research and public programs.
Cultural institutions including librar-ies,
universities, museums, media organi-zations
and individuals are recipients of
grants from NEH. The NEH aims to fulfill
wide-ranging and ambitious goals to:
• Strengthen teaching and learning in the
humanities in schools and colleges across
the nation
SILS alumnus Dr. Robert S. Martin
nominated to National Council on the
Humanities
• Facilitate research and original scholarship
• Provide opportunities for lifelong learning
• Preserve and provide access to cultural and
educational resources
• Strengthen the institutional base of the
humanities
Martin was the first librarian to direct
the Institute for Museum and Library Services
(IMLS), “the primary source of federal sup-port
for the nation’s 122,000 libraries and
17,500 museums.” Under his leadership, the
budget for IMLS increased from $232,321,000
to $280,564,000. The agency funded nearly
$900 million to libraries and museums
across the nation. Martin completed the four-year
term as director of IMLS in July 2005. He
is currently the Lillian Bradshaw Endowed
Chair in Library Science and a professor at
Texas Woman’s University. He is also a mem-ber
of the Louis Round Wilson Academy.
“I am extremely honored to have been
nominated to serve on the Council,” said
Martin. “The Council plays an indispensable
role in the Endowment’s pursuit of excellence
in funding projects to enhance access to-and
appreciation for-the humanities. I consider
it a high privilege to be invited to work with
them in this effort. I look forward to working
with other members of the Council and the
staff of the National Endowment for the
Humanities.”
Martin’s service extends to the Execu-tive
Committee of the U.S. Commission on
UNESCO where he is as an active member. He
was recognized as a 2005 distinguished fellow
by the Council on Library and Information
Resources, and he recently received special
recognition for 25 years of service at the Na-tional
Arts Awards from the Americans for the
Arts organization. Martin is special advisor
to the president of OCLC for cultural heritage
institutions. He has served on seven editorial
boards including Libraries and Culture,
Library Quarterly, American Archivist, and
the College and Research Libraries News.q
SILS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
EXECUTIVE BOARD 2005-06
Amy Gresko, president
greskoa@meredith.edu
Mary Horton,
immediate past president
mhorton@wfu.edu
Mark Sanders, vice president/
president-elect
sandersm@mail.ecu.edu
Julie Harris, treasurer
jharris@library.dcr.state.nc.us
Charles Cobine, secretary
cobine@email.unc.edu
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS
José-Marie Griffiths, dean
Shawn Jackson,
director of development
Rosalyn Metz,
ILSSA student representative
Lewis Dorman (MSLS ’05) was already a
baseball fan when he began his Steele Intern-ship
at the National Baseball Hall of Fame
where he worked with Giamatti Research
Library Archives.
His interest in the sport continued as
he worked with Dr. Jerry Saye, SILS professor,
on his master’s paper on pre-WWII baseball.
Dorman completed his paper in Prague, Czech
Republic, which sparked a new goal of work-ing
abroad in a field that would allow him to
combine his education and service work. It
was at this point that Dorman decided to apply
and ultimately accept a position teaching
English and working in a library in Azerbaijan
as a Peace Corps volunteer.
Dorman left to begin his volunteer-ing
in July and is excited about having the
opportunity to bring his passion for baseball,
education and service to Azerbaijan for the
next two years. q
Peace Corps attracts
SILS graduate
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Alumni News
Skip Auld named library
director of Durham County
Hampton “Skip” Auld (MSLS ’80) was ap-pointed
director of library services at Durham County
Government’s main library and its seven branches
on July 10, 2006. Auld, who has been involved in the
library profession for more than 25 years, recently served
as the assistant library director for Chesterfield County
Public Library near Richmond, Va.
“Skip Auld is a seasoned library professional,”
Durham County Manager Mike Ruffin said in a recent
press release about the appointment. “He possesses a
tremendous amount of ability and brings great enthusi-asm
to this new opportunity.”
Auld is responsible for leading the Durham County
Library system as it strives to provide quality library
services that are responsive to community needs.
“Durham is a great place to live and work!” said
Auld. “I love working with our librarians and other
library workers. I love meeting people throughout the
Durham community. I’m taking time to learn the con-cerns
and ideas of our staff and boards and getting ready
to develop a strategic planning process to develop our
key goals for the next few years. We already know that
we’ll be designing and building more regional libraries
and studying the best way to renovate or otherwise renew
library service out of our Main Library.”
Auld added his personal vision statement, which
is: “I believe in the promise of libraries as the most
vital places where people of all ages gather to freely
pursue knowledge, information and enjoyment of life,”
Auld said. “Libraries should provide innovative and
traditional services at the greatest possible convenience
to customers in the most cost-effective way.” He said he
sees one of his primary roles as helping staff at all levels
find ways to make library services innovative, vital,
convenient and focused on the needs of the users.
Auld has also worked in the Carroll County Public
Library system in Westminster, Md., Duke University
Libraries and the Public Library of Charlotte and Meck-lenburg
County. Along with his professional experience,
he has been a member of the American Library Associa-tion
and the Public Library Association. q
Building community relationships and making information accessible to
the people that need it are common goals of the three School of Information
and Library Science alumni, included in the Library Journal’s 2006 “Movers
and Shakers.” Jill Stover (MSLS ’04), Jeannie Dilger-Hill (MSLS ’93) and Tim
Bucknall (MSLS ’89) were among the 50 professionals acknowledged as “the
people shaping the future of libraries” for 2006.
Jill Stover (MSLS ’04), currently an undergraduate
services librarian at Virginia Commonwealth University,
was recognized in the “Marketers” category for showing
patrons how to use the libraries in their daily lives. To
make the library more visible and accessible, Stover has
cultivated relationships with various campus organiza-tions,
setting up library booths at campus events and
establishing a “Research Outpost” in the computer lab.
She has also established a Web log that cleverly integrates marketing ideas and
everyday life – including an analogy between a Food Network cooking show
and the ways in which librarians “sell themselves and their services” to patrons.
Jeannie Dilger-Hill (MSLS ’93) was recognized as a
Mover and Shaker in the “Community Builders” category.
She serves as outreach services manager at the King
County Library System in Issaquah, Wash., and she has
come to appreciate bookmobiles and the rewarding expe-riences
they provide. According to the Library Journal,
Dilger-Hill enjoys the daily challenges of working with
eight vehicles, but loves serving people in the commu-nity
who would otherwise not have access to books and
materials. The vehicles visit “130 nursing homes, senior centers, low-income
housing developments, rehabilitation centers and hospitals providing fair and
equal access to information upon which a democratic society depends.”
For years Tim Bucknall (MSLS ’89) has been dedicated
to the widespread dissemination of information, allow-ing
patrons to access information that would otherwise
remain hidden behind passwords and user fees. Now,
in his current position as the assistant director at the
University of North Carolina at Greensboro Libraries and
head of Electronic Resources and Information Technolo-gies
at Jackson Library, Bucknall has become a leader
in the field and was recognized as an “Innovator” by
the Library Journal. Bucknall is the developer and creator of the Carolina
Consortium, a group of academic libraries that have combined their purchasing
power to gain access to scholarly electronic resources. He has also assisted in the
creation and implementation of Journal Finder, an OpenURL link resolver used
by more than 25 universities. q
Movers and Shakers: SILS Alumni
recognized for their marketing,
innovating and community building
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Ph.D. graduate Lokman I. Meho’s paper
“E-mail interviewing in qualitative research: A
methodological discussion,” was published in
the June 8th online edition of the Journal of
the American Society for Information Science
and Technology.
Anna M. (Cleveland) Van Scoyoc, and
colleague C. Cason’s article, “The Electronic
Academic Library: Undergraduate Research
Behavior in a Library Without Books,” was
published in Libraries and the Academy,
6(1): 47-58.
2000
Heidi Bulter (MSLS) and her husband
Rodney welcomed their “little mitten,” Maeve
Garnet, on April 16, 2006.
MSLS graduate Kerri Odess-Harnish’s
master’s paper was cited in the most recent
edition of G. Edward Evans’ collection develop-ment
textbook.
1989
June Stephensen, (MSLS) is a coordinator
of disaster volunteers in disaster management,
was recognized during National Nurses’ Week
for her volunteer efforts at the Greater Rich-mond
Chapter during Hurricane Katrina.
1986
In March of 2006, Richard Ramponi
(MSLS) was named director of the library at the
Washington, D.C. office of Latham & Watkins,
LLP. The DC office has approximately 200
attorneys and more than 1,800 attorneys in 10
counties around the world.
1977
Rosemary Green is currently a Ph.D.
candidate in the Faculty of Education at Deakin
University in Melbourne, Australia. In April
2006, Rosemary presented two papers at the Off
Campus Library Services
Conference titled “Fostering
a Community of Graduate
Learners” and “Observations
from the Field: Sharing a
Literature Review Rubric.”
Both papers will be published
in the Journal of Library Administration in
2007.
which was recognized as a winner of the
Healthcare Information and Management
Systems Society (HIMSS) award for excellence.
2003
Christy Allen (MSLS) was hired as a
Digitization Projects Librarian to oversee the
Digitization Program at the State Library of
North Carolina.
2005
2004
“Improving the Model for Interactive Readers’
Advisory Service,” was published in the Spring
2006 issue of Reference and User Services Quar-terly.
Hollands cited C.L. Quillen, a 2001
MSLS graduate, in the paper.
2001
Patricia Harris receives
2006 LITA Award
SILS alumna, Patricia R. Harris (MSLS
1970) has won the 2006 Library and Informa-tion
Technology Association (LITA) Library Hi
Tech Award for Outstanding Communication
in Library and Information Technology. “The
award recognizes outstanding achievement in
communicating to educate practictioners within
the library field in library and information
technology.
Until late-2005 Harris was the executive
director of the National Information Standards
Organization (NISO), where she worked with
leaders in publishing, library and vendor com-munities
gaining partners to develop, promote
and support standards for information. Because
of Harris’ efforts, librarians are “key players
in the development of information technology
standards.”
“Throughout my career technology has
been a key driver in the transformation of library
and information services, so it is gratifying that
my work in standards development to support
technology has been recognized in this way,”
said Harris.
LITA is a division of the sponsor of the
award, the American Library Association. q
Marie R. Kennedy, has
accepted the position of
head, Metadata and Content
Management at the Norris
Medical Library. The library
is on the health science
campus of the University of
Southern California in Los
Angeles, CA.
Amy Gresko’s (MSLS) master’s paper was
cited by Allyson Aird, et. Al. in the Spring 2006
Reference and User Services Quarterly article,
“Why Library and Information Science?”
2002
MSLS graduate Neil Hollands’ paper,
Ella Buhler,
daughter of Amy
Buhler, MSLS,
attended her first
Medical Library
Association
conference in
Phoenix, AZ with her mom. Amy works at the
University of Florida as a reference librarian.
Amy Ising, MSIS, is a team member on NC
DETECT, was recognized as a winner of the
HIMMS award for excellence.
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Ph.D. graduate Debbie
Travers is a team mem-ber
on the North Carolina
Disease Event Tracking
and Epidemiologic Collec-tion
Tool (NC DETECT),
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MEMORIAM
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General Alumni Association (GAA). Notify the GAA
Records Department with death announcements at
PO Box 660; Chapel Hill, NC 27514.
Page Ackerman – BSLS 1940
Frances Pate Adams – MSLS 1933
Margaret Fisher Clifton – MSLS 1967
Jo “Elyna” Eller Dewer – BSLS 1948
Jeanne-Marie LeBlanc Gilmore – ABLS 1937
T. Ellis Hodgin – MSLS 1967
Margarty Farris Huff – BSLS 1948
Alma Ormond Husketh – MSLS 1966
Mabel Barrett Jones –BSLS 1946
Elisabeth Redfern Moore – ABLS 1939
Louise Patrick Newton – BSLS 1941
Nadine Burnett Nixon – BSLS 1952
Fannie Corbett O’Keef – BSLS 1949
Mary Edith Plowden – ABLS 1939
Charles Samuel Woodbury – ABLS 1937
Dr. Nancy Davenport, Louis Round Wilson Academy
member, has been nominated by President George W. Bush to serve
as a member of the National Historical Publications and Records
Commission (NHPRC).
“The National Historical Publications and Records Commis-sion
(NHPRC), a statutory body affiliated with the National Archives
and Records Administration (NARA), supports a wide range of
activities to preserve, publish, and encourage the use of documen-tary
sources, created in every medium ranging from quill pen to
2006 SILS Technical Reports
The following technical reports have been
published by SILS researchers and students this
year: All reports may be accessed on the Web at:
http://sils.unc.edu/research/techreports.html
TR-2006-03
“Library Websites for Elementary-aged Chil-dren:
A Comparative Analysis.” By Carter, Tyson;
Durbin, Dayna; and McCraw, Jenny
TR-2006-02
“Audio Surrogation for Digital Video: A Design
Framework.” By Boekelheide, Kristin; Brown, E.
Ashley Rogers; Fu, Xin; Marchionini, Gary; Oh,
Sanghee; Rogers, Gershom; Saelim, Billy; Song,
Yaxiao; and Stutzman, Fred.
TR-2006-01
“The Influence of Context and Interactivity on
Video Browsing.” By Wildemuth, Barbara M.;
Russell, Terrell; Ward, T. J.; Marchionini, Gary;
& Oh, Sanghee.
Nancy Davenport nominated for national commission
SILS to Host Third Annual Electronic Records
Research Fellowship Symposium
The third annual National Historical Publications and Records Com-mission’s
(NHPRC) Electronic Records Research Fellowship Symposium will
be hosted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill by the School of
Information and Library Science (SILS) on Oct. 6, 2006.
The symposium will focus on how archivists and record managers manage
and preserve electronic records and how they can further institutional objectives
with regard to electronic records.
The 2005-2006 NHPRC Electronic Records Research Fellows will present
their research results at the symposium. Topics that will be discussed include:
electronic records management in Fortune 100 corporations, colleges and uni-versities;
content management systems; and HIPAA-aware EAD finding aids.
Dr. Seamus Ross, an international expert in digital curation and preserva-tion
and director of the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information
Institute (HATII) at the University of Glasgow will join the Fellows and present
the keynote address, “Uncertainty, Risk, Trust, and Digital Persistency.”
The symposium will run from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Pleasants Family
Room of the Louis Round Wilson Library on the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill campus. The event is open to members of the University and the
public. Registration is free and a sign-up form is available at: http://sils.unc.
edu/news/nhprc/
The Electronic Records Research Fellowship Symposium is a joint project
of SILS and the Academic Affairs Libraries at UNC at Chapel Hill and the Duke
University Libraries.
computer, relating to the history of the United States.” It is a 15 member commission chaired
by the nation’s archivist. The Commission was created in 1934 by the United States Congress.
Davenport is the past president of the Council on Library and Information Services. She
served more than 26 years at the Library of Congress where she held several leadership posi-tions
including director of acquisitions, head of the Congressional Research Service (CRS),
coordinator of Members Committee Relations for the CRS and director of Special Programs--
among other job titles.
“With her past experiences, Nancy is an excellent choice for this appointment,” said
Dr. José-Marie Griffiths, dean of SILS and founding chair of The Knowledge TrustSM and the
Louis Round Wilson Academy. “She understands libraries, publications and records, and she is
dedicated to ensuring preservation of key resources, improving access to them and strengthen-ing
the profession.” q
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Dean’s Message........................................ 2
Faculty and Staff News.........................10
Student News...........................................18
Alumni News............................................19
Dean Griffiths named to
National Science Board
SCHOOL OF INFORMATION
AND LIBRARY SCIENCE
Internationally
acclaimed policy expert,
researcher and university
administrator, Dr. José-Ma-rie
Griffiths, was nomi-nated
by President George
W. Bush and confirmed by
the United States Senate to
serve on the U.S. National
Science Board.
Griffiths is the dean of the School of Information and
Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill and founding chair of The Knowledge TrustSM, which
is concerned with the role and preparation of 21st-century
knowledge professionals.
Griffiths has held two previous presidential appoint-ments,
one to the President’s Information Technology Advi-sory
Committee from 2003 to 2005, and the other to the U.S.
National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
from 1996 to 2002. Griffiths also has served on blue-ribbon
panels and committees for agencies including the National
Academy of Sciences, NASA, Department of Energy, U.S.
Geological Survey and the U.S. Navy.
“José-Marie Griffiths has impressive credentials in sci-ence
and technology and a broad range of experiences,” said
Chancellor James Moeser. “She is a perfect candidate for this
prestigious national appointment, and we are proud that her
significant talents have been recognized.”
The 24 member board advises the President and Con-gress
on issues of national science and engineering policy,
and is the governing board of the National Science Founda-tion
(NSF). The term of membership to the National Science
Board is six years.
The National Science Board was established by Congress
in 1950 as an independent policy making body. It was
created “to promote the progress of science; to advance the
national health, prosperity and welfare; to secure the national
defense.” The Board oversees the policies of the NSF, an
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SILS ranked number one by
U.S. News and World Report
The School of Information and Library Science (SILS) has once again
been ranked number one by U.S. News and World Report in the
magazine’s 2007 edition of “America’s Best Graduate Schools.” Page 3
Join us for a grand celebration!
The School of Information and Library Science will launch its 75th anniversary on Monday,
September 18, 2006 with the theme, “Illuminating the Past, Imagining the Future!” as the
school celebrates its many accomplishments and looks toward new and exciting opportuni-ties.
The launch will take place from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in Memorial Hall on the campus of the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A reception will follow.
You won’t want to miss the launch ceremony which will feature special guests:
• Deanna Marcum, associate librarian for Library Services, Library of Congress
• Michael Ruettgers, senior advisor and retired chair, EMC2
• Robert Martin (Ph.D. ’88), professor, Texas Women’s University School of Library and
Information Science
The event will also include words from university and state officials, a short video on the
history of the school and musical entertainment.
To reserve your place at Memorial Hall on September 18th, call us at 919-962-8366 or
send an e-mail note to: 75th@ils.unc.edu
On Thursday, September 21, SILS students have planned a series of events including
poster sessions, panel discussions, a demographic overview and a social activity that promises
a good time for all! In addition, the SILS Alumni Association will host its annual new student
reception in the lobby of the Louis Round Wilson Library.
The Adventures in Ideas Symposium, co-sponsored with the Program in Humanities and
Human Values, will feature “Censorship, Privacy, National Security & Other Dilemmas of the
Information Age,” on Friday afternoon at 4:30 p.m. and Saturday morning, September 22-23.
Topics of the symposium include: “The Spider’s Web of Privacy and Censorship: The Poison
Powers of the Information Age;” “National Security, Secrecy and the Law;” “Rhetoric and the
Law: How the Law Reduces Ideas to Writing;” “Is Creativity in Jeopardy? The Information Age,
Medicine and Music;” and “Dilemmas of the Information Age.” For more information, or to
register to attend the symposium, visit the Web site:
http://www.unc.edu/depts/human/level_3/2006_fall/Censorship.htm
(Please note that first time attendees to the Adventures in Ideas Symposium may attend at 50
percent off the normal cost.)
The anniversary committee is planning a number of activities and events that will take
place throughout the anniversary year. Be sure to visit the SILS anniversary Web site often for
new details on speakers and events at:
http://sils.unc.edu/75thAnniversary
Make sure you’re part of this once in a lifetime celebration! We hope to see you soon! q
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Dean’s Message
Sincerely,
José-Marie Griffiths
Professor and Dean
Dear Friends and Colleagues:
As you can see from our lead article, we are planning for a great 75th an-niversary
celebration launch on September 18! We’re delighted and honored to
have Deanna Marcum, Michael Ruettgers and Bob Martin present at our event
and we know you will be too. The celebration will focus on rededication,
redefinition and commitment. Rededication to the high ethical and
professional standards that have made the school and those entrusted to its care,
among the best in the nation; redefinition of our ongoing mission to educate
and train the “next” generation of knowledge professionals, and, indeed, an
ongoing redefinition of our profession itself; and commitment to the highest
standards of stewardship of what we believe is now, perhaps for the first time
in history, a globally accessible Knowledge Trust, comprising the totality of
mankind’s recorded knowledge … a trust never more accessible, never more
at risk, and never more in need of conscientious, professional and dedicated
stewardship.
During our celebration of 75 years of providing a quality education to so
many, the School of Information and Library Science has much to celebrate.
• In a very timely manner, we’ve once again been ranked number one
by US News and World Report
• The School continues to educate the brightest and best
• Our excellent faculty are leaders in their fields as both great
educators and researchers
• SILS alumni continue to make a significant impact on the
professions of library and information science
The celebration launches a series of activities that will highlight the School
throughout the year. We plan to close the celebration with a finale next fall, truly
celebrating for a full-year. We hope you will join us for as many events and activ-ities
as you can, and participate by sharing your fond memories of SILS on our
memory blog on the 75th Anniversary Web site at: sils.unc.edu/75thAnniversary
On a more somber note, we were shocked and saddened to learn of the
passing of one of our strongest innovators and advocates of information and
library science, Dr. Fred Kilgour. Our thoughts are with his family and those
closest to him. We plan to hold a tribute in his honor this coming spring during
the OCLC/Frederick G. Kilgour Lecture in Information and Library Science. We
hope you will be able to join us then for an informational session, and a final
honor to a truly great man.
We have a busy year planned that is sure to offer engaging lectures, sym-posia
and educational experiences for all. Please plan to join us in celebration
of our 75th anniversary as we hold fast to the original goal of our founder, Dr.
Louis Round Wilson, to send out educated professionals “to tap the vast reservoir
of human knowledge.”
U.S. News and World Report ranks SILS #1
School News
The School of Information and Library Science (SILS) has been
ranked number one by U.S. News and World Report in the magazine’s
2007 edition of “America’s Best Graduate Schools.” The School tied for
first with University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign among programs
with accredited master’s degrees.
“We are delighted to once again receive a number one ranking in
U.S. News and World Report,” said Dr. José-Marie Griffiths, dean of
SILS. “The ranking is an acknowledgment of our efforts to provide one
of the best graduate programs in the nation, and we aim to maintain
the highest standards of excellence as we prepare our students for their
careers.”
In addition to ranking number one overall, SILS also placed in six
of seven specialty areas of the magazine’s top ten list, including:
• 2nd - Health Librarianship
• 4th - Digital Librarianship
• 5th - Law Librarianship
• 7th - Archives and Preservation
• 7th - Information Systems
• 8th - Services for Children and Youth
The rankings for the 50 accredited information and library
science schools are based on a survey of deans, program directors and
senior faculty of the schools. According to information released by
U.S. News and World Report, those responding to the surveys rated
programs on their academic quality using a scale of one to five with
five outstanding. SILS received a 4.5 overall ranking for its accredited
master’s programs.
Prior to the current results, the magazine’s most recent ranking
for schools with master’s programs in information and library science
was conducted in 1999. SILS also placed first in that ranking tying
with University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign. q
Library legend — Dr. Frederick G. Kilgour, dies at 92
The library and information
science world was saddened July
31, 2006 when librarian, inven-tor,
researcher and educator, Dr.
Frederick G. Kilgour, passed away
from a cerebral hemorrhage at the
age of 92 in Chapel Hill, NC.
Dr. Kilgour revolutionized
the way libraries network and store
information with his invention of
of 500 and revenues of $27 million. The number of libraries OCLC served
grew from the original 54 Ohio academic libraries to 2,300 libraries in all
50 states. The number of records in WorldCat grew from the ground up to
five million. Today, there are more than 55,000 libraries and institutions
in 110 countries using Dr. Kilgour’s creation.
“Fred had a rare combination of extraordinary vision and ingenu-ity
to design and develop solutions to critical problems in improving
access to information,” said Dr. José-Marie Griffiths, dean of the School
of Information and Library Science. “His contributions to the field were
numerous and far-reaching, and those of us at SILS were honored to have
Fred join us in his later years as a distinguished research professor. The
information and library science field has lost one of its tallest giants.”
SILS wasn’t Dr. Kilgour’s first experience with academe. He had
previously worked as a librarian and library director at Harvard and Yale
universities for more than a quarter of a century. He was a distinguished
research professor at SILS from 1990 to 2004 when he retired.
During World War II, he was a U.S. Navy intelligence officer in the
Office of Strategic Services, where he developed a system for obtaining
publications from enemy and enemy-occupied areas, and for which he
received the Legion of Merit.
Dr. Kilgour is survived by his wife, Eleanor Margaret Kilgour, and
daughters: Marta Kilgour, Vajra Alison Kilgour and Meredith Kilgour
Perdiew. He leaves two grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
There will be no funeral service; however, several memorial services
are being planned. SILS will host a special tribute to honor Dr. Kilgour in
conjunction with the OCLC/Frederick G. Kilgour Lecture in Information
and Library Science in early 2007. Details will be shared as they become
available.
the WorldCat database in 1971. It is one of the most consulted databases
in higher education and is used daily by millions of students, teachers,
scholars and researchers worldwide. By creating WorldCat, he solved a
problem that threatened to stifle scholarship, research and intellectual
productivity – the rising costs of cataloging the ever-expanding body
of information. He developed the concept of online shared catalog-ing,
which made it unnecessary for more than one library to originally
catalog an item. It reduces costs and improves the availability of library
resources. Today, Web search engines use WorldCat to lead researchers to
pertinent information in libraries around the world.
In 1967, Kilgour founded the Ohio College Library Center, later
renamed OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., a non-profit
organization that works to foster access to information and reduce library
costs. He served as OCLC’s first president and oversaw the organization’s
growth from a regional computer system to an international network.
Dr. Kilgour led OCLC from 1967 to 1980, presiding over its spectacu-lar
growth from an intrastate network to a national network. During his
tenure, OCLC grew from a staff of two and revenues of $67,000, to a staff
At the crossroads: International academy adopts
resolutions on ethics and openness
International leaders met at the crossroads
of culture and tradition in Granada, Spain, on
April 27 and 28 to discuss the future of library
and information science
education, which are facing
a crossroads of their own.
Adopting Thomas
Jefferson’s pledge of “Eternal
hostility against every form
of tyranny over the mind of
man” as its motto, the Louis
Round Wilson Academy
approved its first general
resolutions (statements) on
ethics and openness – two
topics of special concern for
those responsible for the fu-ture
stewardship of recorded
knowledge.
The Academy is the central pillar that
supports The Knowledge TrustSM, a program
founded by Dr. José-Marie Griffiths, dean of the
School of Information and Library Science at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
in October 2005.
The statement on ethics includes principles
related to personal integrity, honesty and respect
for diverse perspectives; maintaining the vital
role of public trust; validation of the authentic-ity
of all materials; respect; and a commitment
to service.
Academy members also agreed that access
to information should be freely and easily
available to all, with due regard for safety and
human rights. The principles adopted in the
statement on openness encourages open access
to the world’s knowledge, with a balanced
regard and respect for the appropriateness and
dangers inherent in archives and other collec-tions
withheld from public view, and regard for
the necessity of restricted access to certain forms
of information.
Representing business, academe, informa-tion
technology, museums, librarianship and
digital era innovators, academy members trav-eled
from all parts of the globe to contribute to
their continuing discussion about how to shape
the education, professional practice and ethos of
future generations of knowledge professionals.
The academy is developing a common
vision to prepare the next generation of knowl-edge
professionals – information specialists,
librarians, technologists, curators, archivists
and other stewards of knowledge – for an ever-changing
environment and the challenges it
presents.
These professionals will be expected to
guide individuals through the masses of infor-mation
they receive, to validate the authenticity
of information and to provide stewardship,
preservation and access for a global public.
When Griffiths established The Knowledge
TrustSM, she, the school faculty and UNC leaders
made a formal commitment to re-define and
affirm the essential role and preparation of
21st-century knowledge professionals. The term
knowledge trust also is used to describe the
totality of the world’s recorded knowledge, as
well as the professionals who are stewards
of this knowledge.
“When we first met less than a year ago,
we determined that our next meeting should
be in a special place,” said Griffiths. “It should
be a place symbolic of the highest values of
stewardship of the knowledge trust and of the
benefits and joys derived from the increase and
diffusion of knowledge by and among men and
women of good will of all races, colors
and creeds.
“What better place than Andulusia, what
better symbol than Granada and what better
example than their great libraries of the high
Middle Ages whose patrons and stewards in a
culture of tolerance preserved, protected and
passed down to the latest generation much of
what is known of the ancient cultural heritage
of three great traditions: Jewish, Christian and
Muslim?”
During the meeting, academy members
focused on the principles
of ethics and openness
throughout their discus-sions.
The group touched on
topics such as the blurring of
access to public and private
information; the new and
powerful search engines and
how they are administered;
the preservation of digital
images and records in the
public domain for all to ac-cess;
and the importance of
understanding new laws.
The group also heard and
participated in discussion on
topics related to return on investment in librar-ies,
re-balancing access to the world’s wealth of
knowledge and shaping a new role and identity
for the 21st-century knowledge professionals.
Sixteen members of the Louis Round
Wilson Academy were formally inducted during
a ceremony held in the 15th-century Marble
Courtyard of the Hospital Real at the University
of Granada.
The newest members of the Louis Round
Wilson Academy include:
• Chris Batt, chief executive, Museums,
Libraries and Archives Council, London
• Dr. Lynne Brindley, chief executive, The
British Library
• Ubaldo Gonzalez, senior representative,
Spanish Ministry of Finance, Embassy of
Spain, Washington, D.C.
• Jay Jordan, president and CEO, OCLC Online
Computer Library Center Inc.
• Donald King, visiting scholar at UNC at
Chapel Hill; research professor, University of
Pittsburgh
• Paula Le Dieu, director, iCommons
• Dr. Cathy Norton, director, Marine Biological
Library/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
in Massachusetts
• Dr. Wayne Pond, director, Program in Human­ities
and Human Values, UNC at Chapel Hill
• Tom Rabon, executive vice president, Corpo-rate
Affairs, Red Hat, Inc.
Academy members and representatives of SILS faculty met in Granada, Spain in April.
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• Dr. Yael Ravin, program director, Learning and Organizational Performance, IBM
• Dr. Terry Sharrer, health sciences curator, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History
• Dr. Robert Shelton, president, University of Arizona
• John Wilkin, associate university librarian for Library Information Technology and Technical and Access Services, University of Michigan
• Dr. Ian Wilson, librarian and archivist, Library and Archives Canada
• Dr. Ann Wolpert, director, MIT Libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Nicole Wong, associate general counsel, Google, Inc.
The Granada meeting was hosted and sponsored by the University of Granada, the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science and the Spanish
Embassy in Washington D.C. The Academy was welcomed to Spain and the city of Granada by University of Granada representatives Rector D. David
Aguilar Peña; Manuel Diaz Carrillo, vice rector for international and institutional relations; Dr. Antonio Sanchez Pozo, vice rector and commissioner
for the European higher education area; Josefina Vilchez Pardo, dean of the faculty of information and library science; and Antonio Marin Ruiz, direc-tor
of communications.
Representatives of the Spanish government who hosted and sponsored the meeting were Carlos Westendorp, ambassador to the United States;
Miguel Martinez, senior representative of the ministry of education and science; and Ubaldo Gonzalez of Washington, D.C., senior representative of the
Spanish Ministry of Finance. The next meeting will focus on the topic of educating the 21st century knowledge professional. q
Statement on Ethics Statement on Openness
We, the members of the Louis Round Wilson Academy, mindful of
our personal and professional responsibilities as stewards of The
Knowledge TrustSM, and of our duty to those who will succeed us,
do, on this day, April 27th, 2006, in the ancient City and University
of Granada, hereby adopt and affirm the following:
Statement on Ethics, The Knowledge TrustSM and its
Stewards
Be it resolved that ethical stewardship of The Knowledge TrustSM
implies an unremitting dedication to the following principles:
• A commitment to personal stewardship of the global knowledge
trust characterized by personal integrity, honesty and respect for
diverse perspectives;
• An unremitting dedication to trustworthiness, with an abiding
respect and regard for maintaining the vital role of public trust on
one’s personal reputation and the standing of the profession;
• An unwavering dedication to the principle of clear, open and
readily accessible validation of the authenticity of all materials
residing in the global knowledge trust;
• A principled dedication to respect;
• A personal dedication to an active engagement in the increase
and diffusion of knowledge, and a commitment to service as its
uncompromising advocate;
• A commitment to “Eternal hostility against every form of tyranny
over the mind of man;” and
• A resolve to exhibit the courage commensurate with the nobility
of one’s convictions.
We, the members of the Louis Round Wilson Academy, mindful of our
personal and professional responsibilities as stewards of The Knowledge
TrustSM, and of our duty to those who will succeed us, do, on this day,
April 27th, 2006, in the ancient City and University of Granada, hereby
adopt and affirm the following:
Statement on Openness, The Knowledge TrustSM and its
Stewards
Be it resolved that humankind’s recorded knowledge should be freely
and easily available to all, with due regard for safety and human rights,
and appropriately balanced compensation for creativity and innovation.
These general principles, we believe, imply and demand:
• A balanced regard and respect for the appropriate roles of public,
private and proprietary knowledge;
• An active commitment to complete, honest and accurate annotation
of all knowledge entrusted to one’s care and an equally rigorous com-mitment
to the application of this principle to the knowledge trust as a
whole, both now and for all time;
• A commitment to faithfully facilitate access to the knowledge trust, to
encourage and promote collaboration and innovation in service to all
humankind;
• A wary and vigilant regard for both the appropriateness and dangers
inherent in archives and other collections withheld from public view,
coupled with a commitment to openness as a first principle;
• A due regard for the necessity of restricted access to certain forms of
information, balanced by a commitment to the minimization of
restriction, and a prejudice for error on the side of openness when the
case for restriction is in doubt; and
• A commitment to openness and access with due regard to appropri-ate
and balanced compensation for meaningful contributions to the
knowledge trust.
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The School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been awarded a grant of $562,041
from the Institute of Museum of Library Services. The funded project, “Preserving Access to Our Digital Future: Building an International Digital Cura-tion,”
is designed to develop an innovative, modular curriculum to educate graduate students in the emerging field of digital curation.
The proposal was awarded in the category of “Programs to Build Institutional Capacity.” It will be
a collaboration between SILS and the National Archives and Records Administration, and features an
advisory board of 17 international scholars and digital preservation specialists from countries including
the United States, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Italy and the Netherlands.
The three-year project will fund Carolina Digital Curation Fellows, who will be a part of the first
generation of digital curators. They will enroll in courses created as part of the new curriculum. Expe-riential
components across campus involving the students in actual digital curation work, will enhance
their learning and insight into important issues and realities and will provide a model that can be implemented on other campuses while meeting the
curation needs in these environments.
The issues of digital curation will also be highlighted by two symposia that will establish forums of discussion to the broad library, archives and
museum communities. These public events will take place in April 2007 and spring 2009.
Preservation of access to digital assets stands as one of the grand challenges of the early 21st Century, explains Dr. Helen Tibbo, the project’s prin-cipal
investigator. “Such preservation is dependent upon sound digital curation. Digital curation is the active management and preservation of digital
resources over the life-cycle scholarly and scientific interest, and over time for current and future generations of users,” she said. She acknowledges
that while digital curation research has become more prevalent, education of future professionals to work in the field has not.
“In preparing students to work in the 21st century trusted digital repository, wherever that may be found, we seek to take relevant existing
coursework and blend it with new materials, content and courses from other disciplines such as computer science, economics and education as neces-sary.
The resulting curriculum will most likely extend well beyond the existing borders of information and library science education and require new
configurations of classes and alliances on our campuses.”
Dr. Cal Lee, SILS assistant professor, is another researcher involved in the project along with Project Assistant John Schaeffer.
SILS receives $562,041 to preserve a digital future
NHPRC Fellows selected for 2006-2007
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) Electronic Records Research Fellowship Program
has announced its selection of the 2006-2007 Fellows. The Fellows and their projects include:
Daphne Arnaiz-DeLeon
Archives and Historical Services Division Director, New Mexico State Records Center and Archives
“Global XML Data Model - New Mexico Public Records”
Don Chalfant
Archival Electronic Records & Special Media Coordinator, & Kathy Jordan, Electronic Resources Manager, The Library of
Virginia
“Developing Processing Practices and Workflows for Electronic Archival Records”
Kathryn Hammond Baker & Elizabeth Copenhagen
Manager, Special Collections and Records Manager, Countway Library, Harvard Medical School
“Metadata Models for Scientific Research Data”
Erin O’Meara
University Records Manager, University of Oregon Libraries
“A Recordkeeping Framework for Social Scientists Conducting Data-Intensive Research”
The researchers will receive $15,000 to conduct their project research during the course of the upcoming year. They will
present their planned work at the 3rd annual NHPRC Electronic Records Research Symposium, Friday, October 6, 2006 at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The report of their results will take place at the 2007 symposium at UNC
next year.
Daphne Arnalz-DeLeon
Don Chalfant
Erin O’Meara
Henderson Lecture reveals books on trial
“Books on Trial: Witch Hunt in the Heartland and a
Nation’s Response” was the title of the 2005 fall Henderson
Lecture by husband and wife team, Professors Wayne and
Shirley Wiegand. The lecture took place on Sept. 26, 2005
during Banned Books Week – a celebration of our freedom to
read – in the Pleasants Family Assembly Room of the Wilson
Library at UNC at Chapel Hill.
The lecture focused on a 1940 raid of an Oklahoma City
bookstore by police officers, who confiscated more than 7,000
books and arrested 16 people. Oklahoma officials then put
the book proprietors on trial, and prosecuted and sentenced four of those
arrested to ten years in prison and fines of $5,000.
The Wiegands presented the previously untold story of the trials, the
public book burning and the appeals process ultimately used to reverse the
decisions.
“The lecture is a colorful and richly detailed case study in American
social and legal history with many parallels to the present,” said Dr. Wayne
Wiegand, “another time when real emergencies have been used to trample
on the civil rights of American citizens and in the process pose threats to
their freedom to read.”
Wayne A. Wiegand is F. William Summers professor of
Library and Information Studies (and professor of American
Studies) at Florida State University, and author of numer-ous
books (including Irrepressible Reformer: A Biography
of Melvil Dewey) and articles in American print culture and
library history.
Shirley A. Wiegand is professor of Law at the Marquette
University Law School, and author of many scholarly articles
that address issues of civil liberties and conflict resolution.
The annual Henderson Lecture was established in 1990
to honor the memory of Lucile Kelling Henderson, faculty member
(1932-1960) and dean (1954-1960) of what was then known as the
School of Library Science.
Previous lecturers include Dr. Barbara Rimer, dean of the School
of Public Health; Dr. Fred Kilgour, formerly a distinguished research
professor in the School of Information and Library Science and
founder of OCLC the Online Computer Library Center, Inc.; and Dr.
Herbert Van de Sompel, team leader of the Digital Library Research and
Prototyping Team at the Research Library of the Los Alamos National
Laboratory. q
SILS hosts JCDL 2006
More than 480 experts and others interested in digital libraries
and information science from 28 countries attended the successful
6th annual ACM/IEEE CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries June
11 -15, 2006.
Hosted by the School of Information and Library Science, at-tendees
were treated to a panel discussion by Daniel Clancy, engineer
director of Google Print; David Ferriero, Andrew W. Mellon director
and chief executive of Research Libraries at New York Public Library;
Daniel Greenstein, University librarian, California Digital Library.
Moderated by Clifford Lynch, director of the Coalition for Networked
Information, the panel discussed “Getting Books Online: Practices
and Strategies.” Jonathan Zittrain, co-founder of the Berkman
Center for Internet & Society, provided the plenary address on “Open
Information: Redaction, Restriction and Removal.”
Conference chair, Dr. Gary Marchionini, noted that this year’s
event attracted an international mix of digital library researchers as
well as many librarians who are grappling with the challenges of
expanding their digital collections and services while maintaining
their rich physical collections and user services. “The meeting dem-onstrates
SILS’ leadership role in advancing digital library research
and practice,” he said.
The conference included full-day tutorials on topics ranging
from an “Introduction to Digital Libraries,” to “Advanced Applica-tions
of the Fedora Service Framework,” to “Metadata and Resource
Exchange Using the Open Archives.” Throughout the week, a number
of sessions on the “Visualization for Libraries,” “Named Entities,”
“Classification and Links,” “Digital Preservation,” “Document Analy-sis,”
“Time and Space,” “Digital Library Curriculum,” “Augmenting
Interoperability Across Scholarly Repositories,” “Images and Sound,”
“Information Retrieval,” “Supporting Education,” Metadata in
Action,” and “Usage and Relationships” were presented.
Dr. Jane Greenberg, SILS associate professor, and Thomas
Seveiens of Universitat Osnabruck, Germany, presented a full-day
workshop on “Metadata Tools for Digital Resource Repositories.”
Drs. Helen Tibbo, SILS professor, and Cal Lee, SILS assistant profes-sor,
along with Drs. Philip Eppard, SUNY at Albany, and Soo Young
Rieh, Karen Markey and Elizabeth Yakel of the University of Michi-gan
led a workshop on “Digital Curation and Trusted Repositories,
Seeking Success.” Both workshops were filled to capacity.
Winners of the Vannevar Bush Best Paper award, sponsored by
ACM, were: “Metadata aggregation and “automated digital librar-ies”:
A Retrospective on the NSDL experience,” by Timothy Cornwell,
Naomi Dushay, Dean Erktrom, Dean Krafft and Carl Lagoze; and
“EcoPod: A Mobile Tool for Community Based Biodiversity Collec-tion
Building,” by Aswath Manoharan, Andreas Paepcke, Jeannie A.
Stamberger and Yuan Yuan Yu.
The best poster winner was “An Analysis of the Bid Behavior of
the 2005 JCDL Program Committee” by Marko A Rodriguez, Johan
Bollen and Herbert Van de Sompel.
Program chairs included Cathy Marshall of Microsoft,
Corporation and Michael L. Nelson of Old Dominion University.
Dr. Barbara Wildemuth served as conference treasurer and Wanda
Monroe was publicity chair for the US. SILS faculty members, Drs.
Jane Greenberg, Bradley Hemminger, Diane Kelly, Jeff Pomerantz
and Helen Tibbo were among the 84 members of the international
Program Committee. Elizabeth Evans of ITS, handled logistics.
JCDL 2007 will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada on June 17-23.
School News
The first of three annual Lifelong
Access Libraries Institutes was held on the
campus of the University of North Caro-lina
at Chapel Hill on July 30 through
August 4, 2006. The event introduced
participants to Lifelong Access, a new
service framework for public libraries.
Selected by a panel of national
advisors and Americans for Libraries
Council staff, the 23 Fellows attending
the Institute were mid-career practicing
librarians who are enthusiastic, success-ful,
experienced and committed to the
First Lifelong Access Libraries Institute convenes at UNC
lifelong access community.
The Institute is based on the principle of
“action learning,” in which the acquired skills
and knowledge will be put to practical use at
libraries over a sustained period of time. As time
goes on, Fellows will be linked electronically
in a national community of practice based on
information exchange and communications.
Presented by Americans for Libraries
Council (ALC), a nonprofit organization that
champions the role of libraries in American
society, the Lifelong Access Libraries Insti-tute
focused on three areas: 1) Concepts and
research underlying new approaches to working
with midlife and older adults; 2) Promising
practices in library services, including the Life-long
Access framework for older adult services;
and 3) Leadership and skills in community
librarianship.
Diantha D. Schull, president of ALC
welcomed the group to the inaugural meeting.
The collaboration in ensuring the success of
the Institute was represented in the welcoming
remarks made by Dr. José-Marie Griffiths, dean
of SILS; Mary L. Boone, state librarian; Dr.
Irene Owens, dean, School of Library Science,
North Carolina Central University; and Dr.
Victor Marshall, director of the UNC Institute
on Aging.
“We are so pleased to be able to convene
library professionals who are committed to
meeting a new population with new services
and opportunities,” said Gloria Coles, national
director of Lifelong Access Libraries for ALC.
“They will form a cadre of leaders, who by
sharpening their own practices and brain-storming
new ones can help libraries across the
nation experiment, innovate and really reach
out to older active adults.”
SILS and the Institute on Aging (IOA) at
UNC partnered with ALC to host the Fellows who
came from across the country. SILS Professor,
Dr. Joanne Marshall, and Heidi Madden, SILS
project manager, participated in the conference
along with IOA faculty members.
The Institute is one component of ALC’s
multi-year Lifelong Access Libraries initiative,
funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies. The $2.7
million grant is enabling the development of a
nationwide network of Lifelong Access Libraries,
showcasing a new model for library services
focused on baby boomers and older adults
making the transition to active civic participa-tion
and lifelong learning in retirement.q
The first Lifelong Access Libraries Institute pose for a group photo.
Where are you? NC LIS graduates
asked to participate in study
This fall, over 8,000 graduates of the six library and information science
programs in North Carolina will be asked to participate in a career study
funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Workforce
Issues in Library and Information Science (WILIS) is a very important
study for the profession, said Professor Joanne Gard Marshall, principal
investigator. “Since LIS is not a licensed profession, we do not know
much at all about the careers of those who graduate from master’s
programs and the factors that affect recruitment and retention,” said
Marshall. “With so many members of our profession reaching retire-ment
age over the next decade, this study will provide important data
for workforce planning and transition.” Graduates are encouraged to participate by sending their current e-mail address to wilis@unc.edu. Other SILS
researchers working on the WILIS project include Drs. Deborah Barreau, Barbara Moran and Paul Solomon. For additional information about the
study, please check the Web site: http://www.wilis.unc.edu/
School News
Library and Information Science professionals from around the
world will come together for the 4th International Conference on
Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP4) hosted by
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on May 6-9, 2007. The
conference will offer scholarly discussions about the future of evidence-based
practice in the information professions and serve as a forum for
current research taking place in the field. It will be followed by two days
of continuing education opportunities on May 10-11.
“Evidence-based library and information practice is an exciting
concept that promises to transform our profession,” said Dr. Joanne
Gard Marshall, organizer and alumni distinguished professor at SILS.
“Following on successful conferences in the UK, Canada and Australia,
2007 is a perfect year to host this ground-breaking international confer-ence
in the U.S. We look forward to sharing ways of linking research
to practice. Using our knowledge base in this way has the potential to
inform decision-making in all types of libraries and information settings
and to assist in knowledge transfer and development during this time of
demographic transition in our field.” The conference will address topics
such as:
• Improving the quality of library and information services
• Building and accessing the knowledge base of the profession
• Defining and setting standards for evidence-based practice
• The role of library administrators, professional associations and
other stakeholders in promoting evidence-based practice
• Identifying key practice areas requiring systematic review of the
evidence
• Learning from professions that have implemented evidence-based
practice
In addition,
the conference will
highlight papers and
posters that present
research based on
the highest standards
of evidence-based
librarianship, as well
as workshops on how
to do evidence-based
practice, how to as-sess
the library and
information science
literature and how to
apply evidence-based
practice in different
kinds of library and information settings.
Evidence-based librarianship, as defined by Anne McKibbon, et al.
at the 1996 ASIS&T meeting is, “an approach to information science
that promotes the collection, interpretation and integration of valid,
important and applicable user-reported, librarian-observed and re-search-
derived evidence. The best available evidence, moderated by user
needs and preferences, is applied to improve the quality of professional
judgments.”
The biennial conference has previously been held throughout the
world. The 2007 conference is the first time it will be held in the United
States. More information about the conference may be found at:
http://www.eblip4.unc.edu/
UNC to host international conference on evidence-based
library and information practice
From left to right, Andrew Booth, University of Sheffield,
United Kingdom; Helen Partridge, Queensland University
of Technology, Australia; Joanne Marshall, School of
Information and Library Science, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, U.S.; Jonathan Eldredge, Health
Sciences Library and Informatics Center, The University
of New Mexico, U.S.; and Gillian Hallam, Queensland
University of Technology, Australia.
in the library, expenditures and a staff survey,
respectively.
Surveys are being distributed in groups
by type of library. The special library survey
was the first to be distributed on August 3,
2006. The surveys will be sent to libraries
according to the following timeline:
• Public libraries - September 2006
• School libraries - October 2006; with
an alternative of January 2007
• Academic libraries - January 2007
We are in the process of gathering
information from people and we will be send-ing
periodic reminders. If your library or any
colleagues received this survey, we urge you to
fill it out, as the project will be more accurate
with a larger response. The public library
By Sarah Aerni
SILS researchers are teaming up with many
professional librarian groups across the country
to produce a ground-breaking study about the
future of the librarian profession. A major
goal of this project is to survey 6,000 special
libraries, 6,000 school libraries, and all public
and academic libraries about their current and
future workforce needs. Projections of number
and type of library positions (and the associated
skills that will be needed for these positions)
will then be made for the library field out to the
year 2015.
The survey questions have been split into
five different parts, in order to minimize the
time necessary to complete it. The length of the
survey is only about 25 questions. The different
parts contain questions about library functions,
services provided, competencies required for jobs
surveys are scheduled to be sent out by the end
of September, with school and academic library
surveys to be sent later in the year.
Analysis and projections of future library
workforce needs will be completed after the
surveys are returned. The research team is
pairing up with researchers at SLA, ARL, ALA,
MLA, AALL, AASL, the University of Pittsburgh
and Syracuse University, among others, to com-plete
the project. Further information about
the project can be found at the project Web site:
http://libraryworkforce.org.
SILS researchers involved with this project
include Dean José-Marie Griffiths, principal
investigator; Visiting Scholar Donald W. King;
Professor Joanne Gard Marshall; Rebecca
Vargha; Beth Ellington; Professor Evelyn Dan-iel;
Kathleen McClatchey and Sarah Aerni. q
The IMLS Future of Librarians in the Workforce Study Study
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National expert in school
library media joins SILS
National expert in school library media, Dr. Sandra
Hughes-Hassell, joined the SILS faculty as an associate profes-sor
on July 1.
“I’m very excited about Sandra Hughes-Hassell coming here
to head our school library media program,” said Dr. Evelyn H.
Daniel, professor. “I am looking forward to working with Sandra
in the fall semester, as I begin my transition from program coordi-nator
to backseat advisor for the school library program as I move
towards retirement.”
Many recent SILS graduates will recognize Sandra’s name
from her book, The Information-Powered School, which SILS uses
in its school library classes.
Sandra comes to SILS from Drexel University where she was
an associate professor in the College of Information Science and
Technology. Sandra earned her Ph.D. from SILS in 1998. She
has a master’s in education with a major in Library Science, and
a bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education from James
Madison University. q
New outstanding staff award
The first School of Information and Library Science Staff Excel-lence
Award Ceremony was held on May 12 in Manning Hall during
the State’s Employee Appreciation Week. Beth Dye, student services
manager and Marcia Tauber, office assistant IV, were recognized by
Dean José-Marie Griffiths for their excellence, commitment, teamwork
and outstanding service to the School.
Both Marcia and Beth are known for their high quality of work,
responsiveness to others and positive attitudes. Their contributions to
SILS have enhanced the School’s reputation and made the office an
enjoyable place to be for students, faculty and staff. The award includes
a framed certificate, $500 and three days of additional vacation. It will
be presented to two outstanding staff members selected by a committee
each spring. q
Marcia Tauber (left) and Beth Dye (right) accept their
certificates from Dean Griffiths.
organization that provides funding through grants to universities and
colleges for research in areas of science, mathematics, social science
and computer science. The Board approves the strategic directions and
budget of the NSF and reviews and approves its awards.
“I am honored by this nomination and consider it a privilege
to work with other members of the Board at this critical time in the
nation’s scientific competitiveness,” said Griffiths. “The U.S. faces poten-tial
erosion of its scientific leadership as the number of American science
and engineering graduates declines, and as research and development
efforts move offshore.
“The nation faces challenges as scientific efforts become more
multidisciplinary and collaborative, and in the need to balance invest-ments
in long-term basic research against short-medium term applica-tions,”
she said. “I look forward to devoting time and effort to these
issues to help ensure that the U.S. retains its science and engineering
leadership.” q
Dean Griffiths named to NSB Continued from page 1
Kate Barnhart joined the SILS Library as
Library technical assistant II on July 6, 2006.
She comes to our library from the UNC Library
Development Office where she has worked for
the past five years. Kate has a degree in fine
art and enjoys teaching and playing music--
including the guitar, banjo and dulcimer. She
is also a storyteller, and she coordinates the
Visiting Fulbright Scholar
This spring, SILS welcomed
Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Gordana
Stokic, from the Library and
Information Science
Department, the Department
of Philology of Belgrade,
Belgrade University, Serbia and
Montenegro. Gordana’s
research focused on “The
Dissemination of the U.S. Library Profession Best Practice in Serbia.”
While in the U.S., Gordana visited with SILS, the New York Public
Library, the Urban Libraries Council and the Library of Congress. q
From left, Gordana Stokic, Dr. Evelyn
Daniel and Carol Carr.
annual “Winter Stories” event held each December to the delight of the
local community.
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Dr. David Carr, SILS associate professor,
has published his second collection of essays,
A Place Not a Place: Reflection and Possibil-ity
in Museums and Libraries, (publisher:
AltaMira Press).
The compilation, which has received
impres­sive
reviews by both scholars and profes-sionals,
becomes a journey for readers as they
are led through Carr’s thoughts.
“This remarkable book reminds us of and
reinforces in us the critical role that our libraries and museums play in
our society – the instruments of our persistent pursuit of our own identi-ties
and ideal selves,” said Dr. Robert S. Martin, former director of the
Institue of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and professor and Lillian
Bradshaw Endowed Chair at Texas Woman’s University. “Every library
and museum professional will profit from David Carr’s thoughtful obser-vations
and careful articulation of what really goes on within our walls.”
“I wrote these essays to remind my readers that complex things
occur when we are in the presence of information,” Dr. Carr said. “Librar-ies
and museums are not simply locations. They are also experiences of
mind and hope, and enemies of despair. We find surprising differences in
them and come to understand surprising differences in ourselves.”
Carr’s first book, The Promise of Cultural Institutions, was pub-lished
in 2003. q
What’s Happening with Faculty & Staff
New book reflects on possibilities
in musuems and libraries
Paul Jones and the Blooker Prize go worldwide
“So I finish a jog along the Blue Nile and climb into my truck. It’s
dusk and I can get the BBC on the a.m. dial at night so I give it a try. Who
is that? I know that voice. Why is Paul on my radio in Khartoum? Am I
going mad?”
This was Mark McCarthy’s posting, which he wrote from Khartoum’s
Humanitarian Information Center for Darfur – Sudan, on Paul Jones’
blog. And as it turns out, Paul Jones, a clinical associate professor and
director of the ibiblio online library and archive, was heard
around the world.
The posting came the day after the world’s first Blooker
Prize was awarded for Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Reci-pes,
1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen. The Prize, created by Lulu.
com was established to honor publications that began life as
blogs and then transformed into books – termed “blooks.”
Jones was one of the judges of the first Blooker Prize.
Because of his involvement with the unique and tech-savvy
Prize, Jones has been contacted by media from around
the world including USA Today, ABC News, NPR, the Washington Post
and newspapers and broadcast stations in Australia, Japan, New Zealand,
Indonesia, Taiwan, Spain and more. The United Kingdom’s BBC sent a
camera crew to interview Jones about the prize and the importance of
blooks as a new medium.
“[The Prize] recognizes books that may not be recognized in other
formats and other places,” Jones said in the BBC News interview. “It recog-nizes
that something new in the way of production is coming that deserves
an award, deserves encouragement and can provide a new way to access
literature by previously unknown authors.”
The winner of the 2006 Blooker Prize is Julie Powel, a 32-year-old
New Yorker, who turned to blogging on Aug. 25, 2002. She chronicled a
year of her life as she cooked every recipe in Julia Child’s 1961
cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Since then,
Powel’s blog has evolved into the book (blook), Julie and Julia:
365 Days, 24 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen and quickly
gained a following, selling nearly 100,000 copies – all before the
onset of Blooker-mania.
“A great blook is not a blog shoveled on paper,” Jones said
about the genre. “Julie and Julia successfully makes the transition
and grows as it goes, having learnt from the blog readers.” A blog-ger
himself, Jones knows the importance of creating a following of
readers and the impact they can have on your writing. “It helps to have an
obsessed audience egging you on in your own eccentric obsessions” Jones
said. He will chair the selection committee for the 2007 Blooker Prize.q
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen is published by
Little, Brown and Company.
New Zealand calls on Carr
SILS faculty travel the globe to share their expertise and the results of
their research. When he’s not busy with his writing and teaching, Dr.
David Carr is frequently invited to present at locations around the world.
In July, through the support of several organizations, including
the U.S. Ambassador and New Zealand’s office of National Services, Carr
traveled to New Zealand to participate in a number of activities.
At a conference of the Museum Education Association of New
Zealand in Rotorua, Carr delivered the keynote address, “A Museum
of Identity and Exchange.” He also presented a workshop presentation
using personal collections, titled “What object is here?”
At the Museum of Wellington City and Sea, Carr delivered a public
presentation called “Four evidences,” about the need for public cultural
spaces. “We need a language that helps us to live beyond our limits,” he
said, “and a place where we can speak it.” While in Wellington, he also
met in an open forum with the National Librarian, Penny Carnaby, and
senior staff of of the National Library of New Zealand. Then it was off to a
Museum directors’ meeting and a museum studies seminar workshop for
two days at the School of Maori Studies, Massey University, in Palmerston
North, one of the sponsors of Carr’s two-week visit.
“My museum, library and public audiences throughout the nation
were engaged and interested in the essential ways that cultural institu-tions
serve citizens,” Carr says. “Because of the rich Maori presence in
New Zealand, the recognition of cultural and social difference and the
value of deep cultural knowledge are important every day.” q
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Faculty & Staff News
Dr. Deborah Barreau
presented “Organizational
Challenges: Commu-nication,
Records, and
Personal Information
Management” in Febru-
SILS Librarian, ary 2006 as part of New
Rebecca Vargha,
was inaugurated as
the Special Libraries
Association (SLA)
president during the
annual confer-ence
in June. She
is the first person from the state of North
Carolina to be chosen for this leadership
position.
“Becoming president of SLA is the
beginning of a journey for me, one that be-gan
early in my career,” Vargha said about
her new position. “I am truly honored and
humbled to lead the organization for the
next 18 months.”
During her inaugural speech, Vargha
highlighted three key areas that she will
focus on during her term:
• Increasing membership growth and
retention.
• Planning SLA’s 100th anniversary
celebration in 2009.
• Reaching a net growth of 1,000
members by the 100th anniversary.
She plans to achieve these goals
through a Membership Working Group,
strategic conference exhibits and expand-ing
the successful Member-Get-a-Member
campaign.
In her address, Vargha acknowledged
the dynamic evolution of North Carolina
from an economy based on tobacco, timber
and textile industries to one embracing a
“range of information-based technologies
and services.” “My vision for this associa-tion
is to focus our talent and energies on
creating a strong, vibrant force for learn-ing,
teaching and innovation throughout
the world.”
Vargha concluded her address by em-phasizing
the importance of collaboration:
“Our opportunities are endless, our journey
is long, but, working together, we can ac-complish
great things. The important first
step is to begin together.” q
Photo courtesy of the Photo Group 2006.
Rebecca Vargha
inaugurated as
SLA president
Dr. Joanne Gard Marshall completed her
three-years of service on the Board of the Medi-
Dr. Cal Lee, assistant
professor, his wife Jen and
big sister Sophia welcomed
Emerson Albert Lee who
arrived at 1:28 a.m. on
May 21, 2006. Emerson
weighed 8 lbs 6 oz and was
21.75 inches long.
Dr. Bob Losee’s paper
“Is 1 noun worth 2 adjec-tives?
Measuring relative
feature utility” appears in
the latest issue of Informa-tion
Process & Manage-ment
Tangentially (vol 42,
issue 5).
cal Library Association in May 2006. During her
year as president, Joanne established two task
forces to review and revise the association’s
policies on education and research. Joanne is
principal investigator of two IMLS funded edu-cational
grants at SILS, the Triangle Research
Network Doctoral Fellows program and the ARL
Fellows Program. She is also leading an IMLS-funded
career study of graduates of the six LIS
programs in North Carolina.
Charlotte
Pomerantz
was born to
proud parents,
Dr. Jeff
Pomerantz,
York Public Library’s Leadership Development
Program. In addition, Deborah participated at
the ACM SIG-IR Workshop on Personal Infor-mation
Management in August. She was invited
based on her paper, “Personal Information
Management in Context.” A poster, Deborah
co-authored with Abe Crystal, Jane Greenberg,
Anuj Sharma, John Oberlin, Michael Shoffner
and Steve Seiberling has been accepted for the
ASIS&T Annual meeting in November 2006.
Dr. Jane Greenberg, associate professor,
and doctoral student, Abe Crystal, had their
paper, “Relevence criteria identified by health
information users during Web searches,”
published online on June 8 by the Journal
of the American Society for Information
Science and Technology (ASIS&T). Jane, Abe
and Kristina Spurgin also saw their article,
“Functionalities for Automatic-Metadata
Generation Applications: A Survey of Metadata
Experts Opinions,” published in the Interna-tional
Journal of Metadata, Semantics, and
Ontologies. And, “Understanding Metadata
and Metadata Schemes,” was included in the
Cataloging & Classification Quarterly.
was published online by the Journal of
the American Society for Information
Science and Technology (ASIST) on June
8. Hughes-Hassell’s co-author was Denise E.
Agosto of Drexel Univerisity.
SILS Professor Dr. Diane Kelly and Ph.D.
student Xin Fu had a poster and their paper,
“Elicitation of Term Relevance Feedback: An
Investigation of Term Source and Context”
accepted for the Special Interest Group on
Information Retrieval (SIGIR) 2006.
SILS Associate Professor
Sandra ­Hughes-
Hassell’s paper,
“Toward a model of
the everyday life
information needs
of urban teenagers,”
assistant
professor, and his wife Yvonne on April 21.
Charlotte weighed 4 lbs 10 oz, and was 16.25
inches long.
“Google scholar and 100% availability of
information,” by Dr. Jeffrey Pomerantz
was published in a recent issue of Information
Technology and Libraries (ITAL). ITAL is
dedicating this entire year’s issues to Dr. Fred
Kilgour in honor of ITAL’s 25th year. This
article argues that Google Scholar is in the
spirit of Kilgour’s work. Jeff and doctoral
student, Fred Stutzman were also published
in Reference Services Review. The article is
entitled, “Collaborative reference work in the
blogosphere.” http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00907
320610669443.
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Faculty & Staff News
Dr. Marchionini appoint-ed
to National Library of
Medicine committee
Drs. Jerry Saye SILS professor
and Alenka Sauperl, visiting
scholar, saw their paper, “Cata-loging
Education on the Sunny
Side of the Alps” published in
the March 4 issue of Catalog-ing
& Classification Quarterly.
The paper describes the status
of library education in Slovenia,
with emphasis on cataloging and
classification courses. Their article
was also published in Educa-tion
for Library Cataloging:
International Perspectives, Dajin
D. Sun and Ruth C. Carter, editors,
pp. 269-286. Binghamton, NY:
Haworth Information Press, 2006.
Dr. Barbara
Wildemuth
participated in
a workshop on
“Privacy and
HCI: Meth-odologies
for
Studying Privacy Issues,” held
in conjuntion with the ACM SIG
CHI conference in April, 2006. In
addition, the results of an ACM
SIG CHI workshop have been
published in JASIST (v57 n6). It
included Barbara’s article titled,
“Evidence-based practice in search
of interface design.”
At the recent 2006 Joint Confer-ence
on Digital Libraries, Dr. Jeff
Pomerantz presented a paper
co-authored by Dr. Barbara
Wildemuth, and Ed Fox and
Seungwon Yang (from Virginia
Tech), on curriculum develop-ment
for education in digital librarian-ship.
Jeff and Barbara also participated in
the post-conference workshop on digital
library education, where she spoke about
discipline-based and international issues.
A brief report of the funded work on digital
library education also was published in the
latest issue of D-Lib Magazine.
A study of the interactivity in an electronic
mentoring system, conducted by Cara
Bonnett (a SILS alum), Barbara Wilde-muth
and Diane Sonnenwald (a former
faculty member), was recently published in
Instructional Science (v34 n1).
Barbara also spoke at the SURA/ViDe
(Video Development Initiative) conference
on “The Open Video Project: How people go
about searching video collections.”
Dr. Mark Win-ston,
SILS associate
professor, received
a 2006 Award of
Excellence from the
editorial board of
the New ­Library
World journal. The
article, “Leadership in Times of Crisis and
Change” was co-authored by Susan Quinn,
a librarian with Ocean County Library in
New Jersey. It was recognized as a highly
commended paper in the category of Li-brary
Management and Library Studies. In
addition, Mark was cited by Allyson Aird, et.
Al. in the Spring 2006 Reference and User
Services Quarterly article, “Why Library
and Information Science?”
Drs. Mark Winston and Jane Green-berg,
and master’s student, Christie
McDaniel, presented on the Curriculum
Review Task Force activities during SILS
Board of Visitors meeting in April.
Dr. Jane Greenberg attended the
Microsoft Research Faculty Summit in July,
and presented on Memex Metadata (M-2)
for Personal Educational Portfolios, during
Memex Day, in Redmont, WA.
Dr. Brian Sturm recently
completed a day-long workshop for
elementary school teachers entitled:
“Storytelling in Environmental
Education” for the NC Environmen-tal
Education Institute in Salter Path,
NC. The teachers explored the theory
of storytelling and then created their
own stories, practiced performance
techniques and discussed potential
curriculum connections.
Dr. Gary Marchionini,
Cary C. Boshamer Distin-guished
Professor at the School
of Information and Library
Science at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
has been appointed to a four
year term on the Biomedical
Library and Informatics Review Committee of the
National Library of Medicine (NLM). The National
Library of Medicine “is the world’s largest medical
library,” providing research services and information
for health care and biomedicine.
“The Biomedical Library and Informatics Re-view
Committee is a scientific merit review group for
the majority of NLM’s extramural grant applications
and performs the first step in the dual review process
followed by the final review of the Board of Regents.”
The committee meets three times a year in compli-ance
with the NIH review cycle.
Marchionini’s current projects include: “Us-ability
of Personal Health Records,” a project funded
by the National Cancer Institute, “Integration of Data
and Interfaces to Enhance Human Understanding of
Government Statistics: Toward the National Statistical
Knowledge Network,” a collaborative project funded
by the National Science Foundation (NSF); the Open
Video Project, the development of a digital video
repository; “Agile Views for vide browsing: Advanced
surrogates, control mechanisms and usability,” an
NSF-funded project to develop and test interfaces for
video retrieval and browsing; “Annotating Structured
Documents” a project supported by Microsoft; and
“Preserving Video Objects and Context: A Demon-stration
Project,” supported by an NSF-Library of
Congress grant intended to develop strategies for
preserving digital video context.
Paul Jones, clinical associate professor, and director
of ibiblio.org, was the featured poet in the Sunday,
June 4 issue of The News and Observer with his
poem, Dark Matters. Paul also participated in the
Harvard Law at the Berkman Center for Internet
and Society’s Beyond Broadcast conference where he
was a panelist, a convener and a contributor to the
unconference.
Great news for those who create or wish
to create two or many thousands of blogs
(Web logs) with just one installation! Staff
and students of ibiblio, located in the School
of Information and Library Science (SILS),
are developing innovative blogging software
that allows individual communication
exchange as well as large and varied group
communication.
A powerful Web publishing system,
Lyceum builds on WordPress software and
allows for ease of use while maintaining
high performance and security. It is ideal for
corporate intranets or universities that need
secure, manageable and high performance
blogging services for thousands of users.
Lyceum expands on the familiar features,
interface and tools of WordPress for users and
administrators.
Development
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Smallwood Foundation awards gift to develop blogging software
“As the Internet has grown and evolved, it
has become a place of collaboration, a forum
for discussion and a medium used to exchange
information at the click of a button,” said Paul
Jones, director of ibiblio. “This growth is exempli-fied
by the open source software, blogs and other
communication tools being used every day on the
Web. What better way to expand on enhancing
these opportunities to share ideas and thoughts
than to offer software to make it easy to create and
install blogs?”
The emerging generation of Web tools is
often described as Web 2.0. According to the
O’Reilly Network, which spreads the knowledge
of innovators through its books, online services,
magazine and conferences, the concept of Web
2.0 emerged during a conference brainstorming
session between O’Reilly and MediaLive Interna-tional.
Web 2.0 is an emerging generation of Web
tools and one of its components is “social
software.” Among this new software are blogs,
wikis, trackback, podcasting and videoblogs.
A gift of $25,000 was awarded to SILS to
create a fellowship in open source. The fellow-ship
will be used to continue the development
of the open source blogging system Lyceum.
The funding provided by the Frances C. and
William P. Smallwood Foundation, a grant-making
foundation that promotes technology
and education, will assist in refining the pro-gram
and making it available to users around
the world.
“The visionary gift from the Smallwood
Foundation will allow us to take the next steps
in innovation with Lyceum, that is to move the
project from an early test state to software that
can be widely used by a vibrant contributing
community,” said Jones. q
Dear Alumni:
Dr. Louis Round Wilson worked tirelessly to build the field
of librarianship. In 1926 he proposed that the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill establish a School of Library
Science. The Carnegie Corporation provided a generous
grant in 1929, allowing Dr. Wilson to see his recommenda-tion
come to fruition. On September 17, 1931, classes began
at UNC at Chapel Hill’s School of Library Science.
Seventy five years after it was founded, your alma
mater has sustained its ranking as the #1 graduate pro-gram
in information and library science by U.S. News and
World Report since 1999. This distinction adds value to
your degree and attracts the highest caliber of future information
professionals.
This fall, we will pay tribute to Dr. Wilson’s vision and a proud
heritage by kicking off a year-long 75th anniversary celebration of,
“Illuminating the past, imagining the future!” We need your sup-port
and participation to make this a memorable milestone.
You are cordially invited to join the School of Information
and Library Science diamond anniversary celebration. On Monday,
September 18, 2006, we will launch a program at Memorial Hall
in Chapel Hill featuring keynote addresses by Michael Ruettgers,
retired chairman and senior advisor of EMC Corporation and
Deanna Marcum, associate librarian for Library Services at the
Library of Congress; remarks by Robert S. Martin, SILS alumnus
and professor at Texas Women’s University who will speak about
Dr. Louis Round Wilson’s legacy; other university and state
officials plus entertainment. You will also view a video pre-sentation
that will take you down memory lane. Additional
launch activities being planned include a student research
and employment forum September 21; and an Adventures
in Ideas symposium titled, “Censorship, Privacy, National
Security and Other Dilemmas of the Information Age”
September 22-23.
But the fun doesn’t end there! We need your support
for additional events such as:
• Reunions
• Information and library science exhibits
• Symposia on important issues facing our field
• A grand finale that promises to be an exciting
culmination of the 75 years of, “Illuminating the
past, imagining the future!”
As you make plans to attend the festivities, please consider a gift
to support the 75th anniversary. Every gift is tax deductible and no gift
is too small. For gifts of $500 or more, sponsorship benefits are avail-able
(see http://sils.unc.edu/75thAnniversary for more details). We
look forward to celebrating with you and thank you for your thought-ful
consideration.
Sincerely,
Shawn Jackson
Development
Message
By Shawn Jackson,
Development Director
The auditorium was filled by a
captivated audience as award-win-ning
author Avi presented excerpts
from some of his latest works. Avi, an
internationally acclaimed author of
children’s and young adult’s literature,
was the keynote speaker for the 2006
Susan Steinfirst Memorial Lecture in
Children’s Literature, sponsored by the
School of Information and Library
Science on Saturday, March 4, 2006.
His literary performance, “My name is Avi,” was well received by his
many fans of all ages who came to see the author talk about his life and
his writing.
The audience was engaged by Avi’s readings from his works such as,
Poppy’s Return, The End of the Beginning, Things that Sometimes Hap-pen,
The Book Without Words and excerpts from his critically acclaimed
book, Crispin at the Edge of the World.
The event was followed by a reception and a book signing for the
enthusiastic crowd.
The biennial lecture honors the memory of Susan Steinfirst, a profes-sor
of children’s and young adult literature at SILS from 1976 to 1996. She
dedicated her life to the promotion of the genre by teaching future librar-ians
and by publishing scholarly works in the field. q
Award-winning author presents,
“My Name is Avi”
Lorcan Dempsey, vice president of Research and chief
strategist for OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
presented “Libraries, Logistics and the Long Tail” at the
inaugural 2006 OCLC/Frederick G. Kilgour Lecture in Infor-mation
and Library Science on February 22, 2006.
His talk focused on collaborative resources and
networking and the changes being brought about through
shared information. He noted that users will see services
moved to the network level, which will allow photos, docu-ments,
research reports, etc. to be more available in a variety
of places simultaneously.
The Lecture was established in
2004 by OCLC on Dr. Frederick G.
Kilgour’s 90th birthday. It brings
together scholars and leaders
from around the world to share
innovative ideas and cutting-edge
research. The lecture honors Dr.
Kilgour who was a distinguished
research professor emeritus at SILS
and founder of OCLC. He invented
the WorldCat database in 1971, developing the concept of
online shared cataloging. q
Kilgour Lecture presented by
OCLC’s Lorcan Dempsey
Miss Jean Freeman leaves legacy and funding for SILS programs
For more than 36 years, Miss Jean Free-man
was a devoted employee involved in nearly
every aspect of administration of what was then
the School of Library Science at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Initially hired
in 1941 as an executive secretary, Miss Freeman
worked with eight deans and assisted in a move
from one building to another, all while working
closely with the students to ensure they had
what they needed to successfully graduate. In
1977, she retired leaving a lasting impact on
the school.
During her years at the School, Jean
Freeman supervised admissions and financial
aid, helped with student placement, organized
alumni fairs and made sure that general ad-ministration
was ship-shape. She led a course
that introduced students to the School and was
in charge of Beta Phi Mu.
Even after her retirement, Jean Freeman
was dedicated to the profession of librarianship
and a reliable friend to the School, making
numerous contributions. On October 27, 2005,
she passed away peacefully at Springmoor
Retirement Community at the age of 93.
Jean Freeman is still supporting the
School that she so cherished. Through a
bequest in her will, she left $75,000 which
will benefit three separate funds at $25,000
each. The funds include: the Lucile Kelling
Henderson Lecture Fund, the Susan Grey
Akers Scholarship Fund and the Ed Holley
Student Research Fund. The Ed Holley Student
Research Fund, the only non-endowed fund of
the three, was selected by the class of 2005 with
a goal of endowing it at the minimum endow-ment
level of $20,000. With Jean’s gift, this
fund will now be endowed, providing student
research awards in perpetuity.
“We are grateful to Jean, not only for her
devotion to the School and the students during
her years here, but also to her extraordinary
generosity and insight to what matters to our
students,” said Dr. José-Marie Griffiths, dean
Miss Jean Freeman (on the left) Margaret Kalp, one
of eight deans with whom she worked during her
years at what is now the School of Information and
Library Science.
of SILS. “Because of her generous gift, our
students will benefit for years to come.”
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SILS Winter Commencement
The graduating classes of August 2005 and December 2005 join school faculty
for a portrait on the steps of the Louis Round Wilson Library.
The School of Information and Library
Science celebrated the graduation of August
and December 2005 students who received
their doctoral, masters’ and bachelors’ degrees
on December 18, 2005.
The commencement ceremony featured
special guest speaker Susan L. Perry, senior
advisor of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
and director of Programs for the Council on
Library Information Resources and SILS alum
(MSLS ’66), who presented, “Librarians. Are
we still relevant? You bet we are!.” Susan was
awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award by
the SILS Alumni Board during the ceremony.
Master of Science in
Information Science
Master of Science
in Library Science
Bachelor of Science in
Information Science
August/December 2005 SILS Graduates
Doctor of Philosophy
Christine Meredith Dicke
Brendan Barrett Doss
Eric Joseph Hoffman
Jesse Alan Kister
Eric Ryan Miller
Jennifer Bradley O’Bryan
Joshua Bert Purvis
Ileana Maria Rodriguez
William O.J. White
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Laura Lee Christopherson
Thomas Ryan Ciszek
Lourdes Cueva Chacõn
Vijay Deepak Dollu
Virginia Beth Ellington
Stephen Richard Barbe
Alison Dena Bradley
Matthew Edward Braun
Brian James Dietz
Halle Elizabeth Eisenman
Valerie Ann Gillispie
Charles Joseph Gray
Shauna Anne Griffin
William Preston Hannah
Elizabeth B Hubbe
Benjamin Allen Hunter
Jaime Beth Hunsinger
Peter Erik Hymas
Todd Toshio Ito
Dean Howard Jeffrey
Kathryn Elizabeth Knight
Robert William Lambert
Niamh Annie McGuigan
Rebecca Ann Pappert
Cynthia Carey Pierce
Kathleen Marie Pierce
Alison Anne Raab
Jennifer Marsico Ricker
Antoinette Watkins Satterfield
Christopher Jordon Steele
Sarah Walton Stokes
Elizabeth Lynn White
Certificate of
Advanced Study
Bin Li
Andrew Dexter May
Meng Yang
Jennifer Rae Bulger
Jonathan Louis Elsas
Timothy Michael Farris
Jackson Raymond Fox
Helen Amelia Hawkins
Samuel H. Kome
Lizhong Liu
Maureen Theresa McClarnon
Jonathan Lee Miller
Joseph Alexander Pippin, Jr
Shell Adair Thaxton
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Winter 2005 commencement’s keynote speaker, Susan Perry, was
honored during the ceremony as a distinguished alumna. Perry was
pleasantly surprised when the award was presented by SILS Alumni
Association Board President, Amy Gresko.
Perry, who graduated from SILS in 1966 with an MSLS, cur-rently
serves as senior advisor to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,
director of Programs for the Council on Libraries and Information
Resources (CLIR).
As a senior advisor to the Foundation, Perry works with libraries
and the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education,
a Mellon-supported initiative to help Mellon-supported liberal arts
colleges with issues regarding teaching and learning with technol-ogy.
At CLIR, her position allows her to collaborate with liberal arts
college library directors and she serves as one of the deans of The Frye
Institute.
Perry has sat on the American Libraries Association Council,
the EDUCAUSE Board, the New Media Centers Board, the Seminars
on Academic Computing Board and the Coalition for Networked
Information Steering Committee. She is currently serving on the
InCommon Executive Committee and the National Advisory Board
for a two year grant from the Institute of Museum & Library Services
to study the future of librarians and information professions in the
workforce.q
Susan Perry named
Distinguished
Alumna Two faculty members were honored with Outstanding Teacher
Awards for the 2005-2006 school year during the school’s May 15 com-mencement
ceremony. Dr. Stephanie W. Haas, professor, and Lisa
Norberg, adjunct assistant professor of practice, were nominated by
students on the basis of their teaching excellence, innovation, classroom
instruction and mentoring.
“[She] is well-known by both students and
colleagues as a very giving person always ready
to do what is needed for students, the school and
the profession,” said last year’s recipient Dr. Jerry
D. Saye, professor.
Haas was given the award based on her
strong relationships with students and her dedi-cation
to educating them “not just for today,”
but for what they may encounter in the future.
A member of the SILS faculty since 1989, Haas specializes in
natural language processing, information retrieval, sublanguage and
terminology, genre and discourse structure. She is a respected scholar
and teacher who consistently receives nominations for the Outstanding
Teacher Award as well as excellent reviews from both students and her
peers. She received the award the first year it was established in 1997.
Lisa Norberg received a special award
specifically honoring an adjunct faculty mem-ber.
She was described by those nominating
her as “an excellent classroom instructor who
is committed and inspiring” and a “model
teacher and practitioner” whose teaching and
professional example has been a beacon for
students. Norberg is active in students’ lives
both in and out of the classroom; they seek her
out as an advisor and mentor.
In addition to Norberg’s role as adjunct assistant professor of
practice at SILS, she is the coordinator of instructional services for the
Academic Affairs Library at UNC at Chapel Hill. q
2006 Outstanding
teachers named
Ph.D. student, Mary Wilkins Jordan, has been appointed Chair of the
Public Library Association’s Recruitment of Public Librarians committee. She
has been a member of the committee for two years, and wrote an article about
a survey the committee did that was published in the journal Public Libraries
last year. Mary was also recently appointed to the American Library Association
Orientation,Training and Leadership Development Committee.
MSLS student Elizabeth Matson has received the Patton Boggs Graduate
Internship at the Ackland Art Museum. She will be working on collection man-agement
and curatorial projects as well as some general museum administrative
tasks during the 2006-2007 school year.
Heather McCullough, MSIS student, made presentations this spring at the
UNC Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference in Raleigh and at the
Conference of the Mid-Atlantic Association for Language Learning Technology
held at the College of Charleston.
Fred Stutzman has been quoted in several journals and news articles recently
on the topics of Facebook.com and MySpace. On March 8, 2006, he was quoted in
an article entitled, “Alarms sound over athletes’ Facebook time,” in USA Today.
He was also quoted in the The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on July 16, 2006
in another athletic article discussing college sports teams and social networking
sites like MySpace and FaceBook.
Megan Winget successfully defended her dissertation on June 9. Megan will be
joining the University of Texas at Austin faculty in the fall.
Doctoral student Abe
Crystal has received the
2006 Zipf Fellowship in
Information Management.
The $10,000 award is
sponsored by the Council
on Library and Informa-tion
Resources (CLIR) and
according to its Web site, is given to a current graduate
student who “shows exceptional promise for leadership
and technical achievement in information manage-ment.”
“I am honored to receive the Zipf fellowship,
which will enable me to focus on and extend my dis-sertation
research,” Crystal said.
The fellowship honors information management
pioneer A.R. Zipf, who brought innovation to the bank-ing
industry during his forty-year career with the Bank
of America.
In addition, Crystal’s collaborative paper with
SILS Assistant Professor Jane Greenberg, “Relevence
criteria identified by health information users during
Web searches,” was published online June 8 in the
Journal of the American Society for Information
Science and Technology (ASIS&T).q
The National Library of Medicine
(NLM) has awarded School of Information
and Library Science doctoral student John
MacMullen a multi-year biomedical
informatics fellowship. The award will
fund MacMullen’s dissertation research
which will be a collaborative effort between
himself and Stanford University’s Depart-ment
of Genetics and the Gene Ontology
Consortium.
“The amount of biological data
and scientific publication from differ-ent
specialties have grown tremendously
in the past decade,” MacMullen said.
“This makes it difficult for scientists to
bring together related information from
multiple organisms. Some researchers are
addressing the problem with manually-curated
relationships using Gene Ontology
annotations. Our work investigates ways
to evaluate the effectiveness and quality
of annotations made by scientific cura-tors.
This may lead to better information
integration across databases.”
The fellowship began in spring 2006
and will provide MacMullen the opportu-nity
to conduct experiments on annotation
quality in model organism databases. It
includes a stipend and reimbursements
for tuition, fees, insurance, travel and
research expenses.
MacMullen earned his MSIS from
SILS in 1997, and holds a B.S. from North-eastern
University. He has been a member
What’s Happening with SILS Students
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SILS Ph.D. student
awarded fellowship
SILS doctoral student wins National Library of
Medicine Fellowship
of the Annotation Research group at SILS
since 2004. He worked as a project manager
in the data communications industry for
several years before returning to UNC as a re-search
fellow at the Health Sciences Library.
He then entered the doctoral program in
2002. q
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Greetings from the SILS Alumni Association!
The heat of summer is finally showing signs of
retreat and the leaves are just starting to show
some fall colors. As always, it is a beautiful thing
to be in Chapel Hill! Since the last edition of the
newsletter, the SILSAA Board has stayed quite busy.
At December’s commencement ceremony, Susan
Lane Perry was presented with the Distinguished
Alumni Award. Susan is currently the senior advi-sor
for Liberal Arts Colleges at the Andrew W. Mel-lon
Foundation and director of Programs at the
Council on Library and Information Resources.
In January, we presented two graduate students, Monica McCor-mick
and Phil Binkowski, with Elfreda A. Chatman Research Awards as
well as $150 each for their outstanding Masters Paper proposals.
This spring, SILSAA organized the Career Mentoring Connection
(formerly known as Mentoring Week) which paired undergraduate and
graduate SILS students with local professionals in their areas of inter-est.
We want to thank everyone who volunteered to be a mentor this
year and hope you will consider participating in the future.
May commencement marked the end of another academic year at
SILS. Evelyn Poole-Kober was honored with the Distinguished Alumni
Award this spring for her contributions to special librarianship and her
President’s
Message
By Amy Gresko
Alumni Association
Alumni News
Anthony “Tony��� Bull has worked
at the International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA) since graduating from
the School of Information and Library
Science (SILS) with an MSIS in May
2003. In October 2005, the IAEA and its
director were recognized as Nobel Peace
Prize laureates when the Norwegian Nobel
Committee awarded the prize. IAEA is
located in Vienna, Austria, and its Director
General, Mohamed ElBaradei received the
pretigious prize for their work of “incalculable importance.”
The Nobel Foundation recognized the organization and its director
for “their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military
purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used
in the safest possible way.” This award comes during a period of nuclear
threats and the Foundation wanted to acknowledge the importance of
promoting peace through “international cooperation.” The prize was
presented at a ceremony on December 10, 2005 in Oslo, Norway.
Bull is currently a developer for a project management Web appli-cation
which is used for approximately 1,400 projects around the world.
The system manages everything from organizing the logistics of nuclear
knowledge exchange, to the delivery of X-Ray machines, to the training
of the next generation of nuclear scientists.
“Although I’m primarily involved in the technical aspects of Web
development, I do get a chance to practice the user-centered design
and information architecture skills I learned while at SILS,” Bull said.
“One of the larger responsibilities I’ve had since being with the Agency
was managing a cross-departmental project to bring several hundred
information resources together.”
“Tony was an active leader during his time at SILS, serving as
ASIS&T Student Chapter President, and organizing an alumni mentor-ing
program for students,” said Dr. Gary Marchionini, Cary C. Boshamer
Distinguished Professor. “His dedication to information to serve human
needs was apparent during his studies here and it is no surprise that
he is involved with an agency that has been honored for advancing the
cause of international peace. He is an inspiration for informational
professionals everywhere.”q
continued support and advocacy for SILS. She is an expert sole-librar-ian
managing all library services for the Atmospheric Sciences Modeling
Division Library in the EPA’s National Exposure Research Laboratory and
the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration Air Resources Labora-tory.
Four students were given Outstanding Service to the School awards
along with checks for $50 each: Ron Bergquist (Doctoral), Joan Petit and
Maggie Hite (Masters), and John Walker (Undergraduate).
Looking ahead, we will be hosting our traditional New Student
Reception on the afternoon of September 21st. This year the event will be
held right outside the Pleasants Room in Wilson Library, and all alumni
are encouraged to come and greet the new students. The reception is
during the 75th anniversary celebration week and we hope you will be a
part of the events!
In order to help us keep you informed of our activities, I encourage
you to verify your subscription to the sils-alumni listserv, and join if you
are not a current subscriber. The traffic is extremely light and the list
provides an invaluable communication tool. Visit http://listserv.unc.edu/
select “search for lists” on the right-hand side of the screen and search
for “sils” or “alumni” (a more directed search, unfortunately, is not pos-sible).
Find the “sils-alumni” list in the retrieval set and chose to visit or
subscribe to the list. You may also keep up with our activities by visiting
our Web site at: http://ils.unc.edu/alumni/
Graduate works for Nobel Peace Prize winning organization
Greetings from SILS Alumni Association
Alumni News
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President
George W.
Bush has
nominat-ed
SILS
gradu-ate,
Dr.
Robert
S. Mar-tin
(Ph.D. ’88), to serve on the National
Council on the Humanities, an advisory
board to the National Endowment for the
Humanities (NEH).
The National Council on the Humani-ties
is a board of 26 distinguished private
citizens appointed by the president and
confirmed by the Senate who advise the
chairman of the NEH. Martin’s service to
the board is a six-year term ending January
26, 2012.
“With his impressive accomplish-ments
at the national and international
levels, Bob Martin is an excellent fit for
this appointment,” said Dr. José-Marie
Griffiths, dean of the School of Informa-tion
and Library Science at UNC at Chapel
Hill. “He will bring significant expertise
and knowledge to the Board as it provides
recommendations to the NEH.”
The NEH is an independent grant-making
agency that seeks to promote re-search
and the development of programs in
humanities throughout the United States.
Created in 1965, the endowment
provides the largest amount of funds to hu-manities
programs in the country through
grants to pursue its mission of preserving
and providing access to cultural resources,
education, research and public programs.
Cultural institutions including librar-ies,
universities, museums, media organi-zations
and individuals are recipients of
grants from NEH. The NEH aims to fulfill
wide-ranging and ambitious goals to:
• Strengthen teaching and learning in the
humanities in schools and colleges across
the nation
SILS alumnus Dr. Robert S. Martin
nominated to National Council on the
Humanities
• Facilitate research and original scholarship
• Provide opportunities for lifelong learning
• Preserve and provide access to cultural and
educational resources
• Strengthen the institutional base of the
humanities
Martin was the first librarian to direct
the Institute for Museum and Library Services
(IMLS), “the primary source of federal sup-port
for the nation’s 122,000 libraries and
17,500 museums.” Under his leadership, the
budget for IMLS increased from $232,321,000
to $280,564,000. The agency funded nearly
$900 million to libraries and museums
across the nation. Martin completed the four-year
term as director of IMLS in July 2005. He
is currently the Lillian Bradshaw Endowed
Chair in Library Science and a professor at
Texas Woman’s University. He is also a mem-ber
of the Louis Round Wilson Academy.
“I am extremely honored to have been
nominated to serve on the Council,” said
Martin. “The Council plays an indispensable
role in the Endowment’s pursuit of excellence
in funding projects to enhance access to-and
appreciation for-the humanities. I consider
it a high privilege to be invited to work with
them in this effort. I look forward to working
with other members of the Council and the
staff of the National Endowment for the
Humanities.”
Martin’s service extends to the Execu-tive
Committee of the U.S. Commission on
UNESCO where he is as an active member. He
was recognized as a 2005 distinguished fellow
by the Council on Library and Information
Resources, and he recently received special
recognition for 25 years of service at the Na-tional
Arts Awards from the Americans for the
Arts organization. Martin is special advisor
to the president of OCLC for cultural heritage
institutions. He has served on seven editorial
boards including Libraries and Culture,
Library Quarterly, American Archivist, and
the College and Research Libraries News.q
SILS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
EXECUTIVE BOARD 2005-06
Amy Gresko, president
greskoa@meredith.edu
Mary Horton,
immediate past president
mhorton@wfu.edu
Mark Sanders, vice president/
president-elect
sandersm@mail.ecu.edu
Julie Harris, treasurer
jharris@library.dcr.state.nc.us
Charles Cobine, secretary
cobine@email.unc.edu
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS
José-Marie Griffiths, dean
Shawn Jackson,
director of development
Rosalyn Metz,
ILSSA student representative
Lewis Dorman (MSLS ’05) was already a
baseball fan when he began his Steele Intern-ship
at the National Baseball Hall of Fame
where he worked with Giamatti Research
Library Archives.
His interest in the sport continued as
he worked with Dr. Jerry Saye, SILS professor,
on his master’s paper on pre-WWII baseball.
Dorman completed his paper in Prague, Czech
Republic, which sparked a new goal of work-ing
abroad in a field that would allow him to
combine his education and service work. It
was at this point that Dorman decided to apply
and ultimately accept a position teaching
English and working in a library in Azerbaijan
as a Peace Corps volunteer.
Dorman left to begin his volunteer-ing
in July and is excited about having the
opportunity to bring his passion for baseball,
education and service to Azerbaijan for the
next two years. q
Peace Corps attracts
SILS graduate
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Alumni News
Skip Auld named library
director of Durham County
Hampton “Skip” Auld (MSLS ’80) was ap-pointed
director of library services at Durham County
Government’s main library and its seven branches
on July 10, 2006. Auld, who has been involved in the
library profession for more than 25 years, recently served
as the assistant library director for Chesterfield County
Public Library near Richmond, Va.
“Skip Auld is a seasoned library professional,”
Durham County Manager Mike Ruffin said in a recent
press release about the appointment. “He possesses a
tremendous amount of ability and brings great enthusi-asm
to this new opportunity.”
Auld is responsible for leading the Durham County
Library system as it strives to provide quality library
services that are responsive to community needs.
“Durham is a great place to live and work!” said
Auld. “I love working with our librarians and other
library workers. I love meeting people throughout the
Durham community. I’m taking time to learn the con-cerns
and ideas of our staff and boards and getting ready
to develop a strategic planning process to develop our
key goals for the next few years. We already know that
we’ll be designing and building more regional libraries
and studying the best way to renovate or otherwise renew
library service out of our Main Library.”
Auld added his personal vision statement, which
is: “I believe in the promise of libraries as the most
vital places where people of all ages gather to freely
pursue knowledge, information and enjoyment of life,”
Auld said. “Libraries should provide innovative and
traditional services at the greatest possible convenience
to customers in the most cost-effective way.” He said he
sees one of his primary roles as helping staff at all levels
find ways to make library services innovative, vital,
convenient and focused on the needs of the users.
Auld has also worked in the Carroll County Public
Library system in Westminster, Md., Duke University
Libraries and the Public Library of Charlotte and Meck-lenburg
County. Along with his professional experience,
he has been a member of the American Library Associa-tion
and the Public Library Association. q
Building community relationships and making information accessible to
the people that need it are common goals of the three School of Information
and Library Science alumni, included in the Library Journal’s 2006 “Movers
and Shakers.” Jill Stover (MSLS ’04), Jeannie Dilger-Hill (MSLS ’93) and Tim
Bucknall (MSLS ’89) were among the 50 professionals acknowledged as “the
people shaping the future of libraries” for 2006.
Jill Stover (MSLS ’04), currently an undergraduate
services librarian at Virginia Commonwealth University,
was recognized in the “Marketers” category for showing
patrons how to use the libraries in their daily lives. To
make the library more visible and accessible, Stover has
cultivated relationships with various campus organiza-tions,
setting up library booths at campus events and
establishing a “Research Outpost” in the computer lab.
She has also established a Web log that cleverly integrates marketing ideas and
everyday life – including an analogy between a Food Network cooking show
and the ways in which librarians “sell themselves and their services” to patrons.
Jeannie Dilger-Hill (MSLS ’93) was recognized as a
Mover and Shaker in the “Community Builders” category.
She serves as outreach services manager at the King
County Library System in Issaquah, Wash., and she has
come to appreciate bookmobiles and the rewarding expe-riences
they provide. According to the Library Journal,
Dilger-Hill enjoys the daily challenges of working with
eight vehicles, but loves serving people in the commu-nity
who would otherwise not have access to books and
materials. The vehicles visit “130 nursing homes, senior centers, low-income
housing developments, rehabilitation centers and hospitals providing fair and
equal access to information upon which a democratic society depends.”
For years Tim Bucknall (MSLS ’89) has been dedicated
to the widespread dissemination of information, allow-ing
patrons to access information that would otherwise
remain hidden behind passwords and user fees. Now,
in his current position as the assistant director at the
University of North Carolina at Greensboro Libraries and
head of Electronic Resources and Information Technolo-gies
at Jackson Library, Bucknall has become a leader
in the field and was recognized as an “Innovator” by
the Library Journal. Bucknall is the developer and creator of the Carolina
Consortium, a group of academic libraries that have combined their purchasing
power to gain access to scholarly electronic resources. He has also assisted in the
creation and implementation of Journal Finder, an OpenURL link resolver used
by more than 25 universities. q
Movers and Shakers: SILS Alumni
recognized for their marketing,
innovating and community building
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Ph.D. graduate Lokman I. Meho’s paper
“E-mail interviewing in qualitative research: A
methodological discussion,” was published in
the June 8th online edition of the Journal of
the American Society for Information Science
and Technology.
Anna M. (Cleveland) Van Scoyoc, and
colleague C. Cason’s article, “The Electronic
Academic Library: Undergraduate Research
Behavior in a Library Without Books,” was
published in Libraries and the Academy,
6(1): 47-58.
2000
Heidi Bulter (MSLS) and her husband
Rodney welcomed their “little mitten,” Maeve
Garnet, on April 16, 2006.
MSLS graduate Kerri Odess-Harnish’s
master’s paper was cited in the most recent
edition of G. Edward Evans’ collection develop-ment
textbook.
1989
June Stephensen, (MSLS) is a coordinator
of disaster volunteers in disaster management,
was recognized during National Nurses’ Week
for her volunteer efforts at the Greater Rich-mond
Chapter during Hurricane Katrina.
1986
In March of 2006, Richard Ramponi
(MSLS) was named director of the library at the
Washington, D.C. office of Latham & Watkins,
LLP. The DC office has approximately 200
attorneys and more than 1,800 attorneys in 10
counties around the world.
1977
Rosemary Green is currently a Ph.D.
candidate in the Faculty of Education at Deakin
University in Melbourne, Australia. In April
2006, Rosemary presented two papers at the Off
Campus Library Services
Conference titled “Fostering
a Community of Graduate
Learners” and “Observations
from the Field: Sharing a
Literature Review Rubric.”
Both papers will be published
in the Journal of Library Administration in
2007.
which was recognized as a winner of the
Healthcare Information and Management
Systems Society (HIMSS) award for excellence.
2003
Christy Allen (MSLS) was hired as a
Digitization Projects Librarian to oversee the
Digitization Program at the State Library of
North Carolina.
2005
2004
“Improving the Model for Interactive Readers’
Advisory Service,” was published in the Spring
2006 issue of Reference and User Services Quar-terly.
Hollands cited C.L. Quillen, a 2001
MSLS graduate, in the paper.
2001
Patricia Harris receives
2006 LITA Award
SILS alumna, Patricia R. Harris (MSLS
1970) has won the 2006 Library and Informa-tion
Technology Association (LITA) Library Hi
Tech Award for Outstanding Communication
in Library and Information Technology. “The
award recognizes outstanding achievement in
communicating to educate practictioners within
the library field in library and information
technology.
Until late-2005 Harris was the executive
director of the National Information Standards
Organization (NISO), where she worked with
leaders in publishing, library and vendor com-munities
gaining partners to develop, promote
and support standards for information. Because
of Harris’ efforts, librarians are “key players
in the development of information technology
standards.”
“Throughout my career technology has
been a key driver in the transformation of library
and information services, so it is gratifying that
my work in standards development to support
technology has been recognized in this way,”
said Harris.
LITA is a division of the sponsor of the
award, the American Library Association. q
Marie R. Kennedy, has
accepted the position of
head, Metadata and Content
Management at the Norris
Medical Library. The library
is on the health science
campus of the University of
Southern California in Los
Angeles, CA.
Amy Gresko’s (MSLS) master’s paper was
cited by Allyson Aird, et. Al. in the Spring 2006
Reference and User Services Quarterly article,
“Why Library and Information Science?”
2002
MSLS graduate Neil Hollands’ paper,
Ella Buhler,
daughter of Amy
Buhler, MSLS,
attended her first
Medical Library
Association
conference in
Phoenix, AZ with her mom. Amy works at the
University of Florida as a reference librarian.
Amy Ising, MSIS, is a team member on NC
DETECT, was recognized as a winner of the
HIMMS award for excellence.
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Ph.D. graduate Debbie
Travers is a team mem-ber
on the North Carolina
Disease Event Tracking
and Epidemiologic Collec-tion
Tool (NC DETECT),
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IN
MEMORIAM
Death notices are provided by the UNC at Chapel Hill
General Alumni Association (GAA). Notify the GAA
Records Department with death announcements at
PO Box 660; Chapel Hill, NC 27514.
Page Ackerman – BSLS 1940
Frances Pate Adams – MSLS 1933
Margaret Fisher Clifton – MSLS 1967
Jo “Elyna” Eller Dewer – BSLS 1948
Jeanne-Marie LeBlanc Gilmore – ABLS 1937
T. Ellis Hodgin – MSLS 1967
Margarty Farris Huff – BSLS 1948
Alma Ormond Husketh – MSLS 1966
Mabel Barrett Jones –BSLS 1946
Elisabeth Redfern Moore – ABLS 1939
Louise Patrick Newton – BSLS 1941
Nadine Burnett Nixon – BSLS 1952
Fannie Corbett O’Keef – BSLS 1949
Mary Edith Plowden – ABLS 1939
Charles Samuel Woodbury – ABLS 1937
Dr. Nancy Davenport, Louis Round Wilson Academy
member, has been nominated by President George W. Bush to serve
as a member of the National Historical Publications and Records
Commission (NHPRC).
“The National Historical Publications and Records Commis-sion
(NHPRC), a statutory body affiliated with the National Archives
and Records Administration (NARA), supports a wide range of
activities to preserve, publish, and encourage the use of documen-tary
sources, created in every medium ranging from quill pen to
2006 SILS Technical Reports
The following technical reports have been
published by SILS researchers and students this
year: All reports may be accessed on the Web at:
http://sils.unc.edu/research/techreports.html
TR-2006-03
“Library Websites for Elementary-aged Chil-dren:
A Comparative Analysis.” By Carter, Tyson;
Durbin, Dayna; and McCraw, Jenny
TR-2006-02
“Audio Surrogation for Digital Video: A Design
Framework.” By Boekelheide, Kristin; Brown, E.
Ashley Rogers; Fu, Xin; Marchionini, Gary; Oh,
Sanghee; Rogers, Gershom; Saelim, Billy; Song,
Yaxiao; and Stutzman, Fred.
TR-2006-01
“The Influence of Context and Interactivity on
Video Browsing.” By Wildemuth, Barbara M.;
Russell, Terrell; Ward, T. J.; Marchionini, Gary;
& Oh, Sanghee.
Nancy Davenport nominated for national commission
SILS to Host Third Annual Electronic Records
Research Fellowship Symposium
The third annual National Historical Publications and Records Com-mission’s
(NHPRC) Electronic Records Research Fellowship Symposium will
be hosted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill by the School of
Information and Library Science (SILS) on Oct. 6, 2006.
The symposium will focus on how archivists and record managers manage
and preserve electronic records and how they can further institutional objectives
with regard to electronic records.
The 2005-2006 NHPRC Electronic Records Research Fellows will present
their research results at the symposium. Topics that will be discussed include:
electronic records management in Fortune 100 corporations, colleges and uni-versities;
content management systems; and HIPAA-aware EAD finding aids.
Dr. Seamus Ross, an international expert in digital curation and preserva-tion
and director of the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information
Institute (HATII) at the University of Glasgow will join the Fellows and present
the keynote address, “Uncertainty, Risk, Trust, and Digital Persistency.”
The symposium will run from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Pleasants Family
Room of the Louis Round Wilson Library on the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill campus. The event is open to members of the University and the
public. Registration is free and a sign-up form is available at: http://sils.unc.
edu/news/nhprc/
The Electronic Records Research Fellowship Symposium is a joint project
of SILS and the Academic Affairs Libraries at UNC at Chapel Hill and the Duke
University Libraries.
computer, relating to the history of the United States.” It is a 15 member commission chaired
by the nation’s archivist. The Commission was created in 1934 by the United States Congress.
Davenport is the past president of the Council on Library and Information Services. She
served more than 26 years at the Library of Congress where she held several leadership posi-tions
including director of acquisitions, head of the Congressional Research Service (CRS),
coordinator of Members Committee Relations for the CRS and director of Special Programs--
among other job titles.
“With her past experiences, Nancy is an excellent choice for this appointment,” said
Dr. José-Marie Griffiths, dean of SILS and founding chair of The Knowledge TrustSM and the
Louis Round Wilson Academy. “She understands libraries, publications and records, and she is
dedicated to ensuring preservation of key resources, improving access to them and strengthen-ing
the profession.” q
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